Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

Right story so far….

Did a compression test and had no compression on 1 cylinder. I have had the head off and reground all valves in as 1 was looking like it wasn’t seating properly. I now have compression on both cylinders. I haven’t tried to run it yet as all the exhaust/inlet gaskets have fell to bits and was letting exhast and inlet mix.…[Read more]

I take it this is the part number I am looking for? Is this the same carb that normally on the 810cc?

It’s a bit of a head scratcher this end too mate. It got put into dry storage a year ago. We collected it a few weeks back and obviously any fuel etc had gone stale. we cleaned the carb out and flushed the tank and it ran fine. We returned a couple of days later to run it up and then take to the allotment and it was running but the hunting almost…[Read more]

I have emailed that company, thanks.

I am going to do a compression test as it is spitting back through the air filter a bit which would say to me either a bent inlet valve or one that is not seating properly. My uncle used to work on garden machinary so is quite sorted when it comes to older engines. He suggested the replacing the carb jets etc…[Read more]

I Haven’t no. It was running fine when it was put in dry storage so didn’t think I would need parts etc. Are these machines really that hard to get parts for? What if I need a set of valves for example, head gasket etc?