I've got a two stroke flymow engine you can have for free if you wish. I threw the rest of it away, but like every horder, couldnt bring myself to chuck out a perfectly good engine.
Ivan
Had a day off on Tuesday as the plasterer was working at home.
> Took the opportunity to have a go at my petrol Flymo (engine content).
> Simple job I thought, just a carb clean out needed. A job I have done before
> quite a few times. It's also a good opportunity to clear out all the bits of
> grass etc that collect where they shouldn't.
> The carb clean went OK till I came to replace it. I must have finished the
> job 4 or 5 times. Each time, there was another bit left over that I should
> have put back.
> The final straw was when the throttle governor spring broke. I had already
> dropped it in the grass once and considered myself lucky to have found it.
> This time there was no chance of repairing it. Every time I bent a new end,
> it snapped again. A new one was ordered and should be here today.
> Then I noticed that the engine was loose. The mounting bolts are above the
> fan so that and the blade had to come off. No matter how I tried, the centre
> bolt would not shift. After over an hour trying, I finally had to resort to
> the cutting gas to take the head off. Once that was done, the rest screwed
> out by hand. Tightened the engine bolts OK and ordered a new blade bolt > yesterday.
> Wondering why the old bolt was so tight, I remembered an incident about 2
> years ago when the blade hit something and stalled the engine in about 1/2 a
> rev (literally). That must have given the bolt an almighty tweak. It's a
> very fine thread on those as well. What did it hit? Well I was very glad I
> was wearing steel toe caps that day.
> Should have the thing working tonight then the lawn can get cut again. >
> John
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