Good mowers should never be wasted on neglectful owners.

I enjoyed your interesting commentary and have learnt a lot! Thanks a lot!

Wow I've never seen one do that before. Thanks for the show brother 🙏

Thank you for the video

Good day Bruce  Yea too bad Thanks for video.

Ya know Bruce, I have run across this exact same issue a number of times only on blade brake clutch equipped mowers. Several were Quantums and I think two were Honda engines, all with blade clutch setups. There was so much play in the upper crank bearing that they would shake all over and leak oil from the upper seal, a couple would even strike the magneto coil. I have never run across this problem with standard mower engines or large blade brake engines, only small block blade brake equipped models. I don’t know if the smaller engines with a blade brake clutch need more upper bearing support or maybe they need an actual roller bearing on the upper or what it is, but to me it seems to be a common failure point with the blade brake models. Just my observation FWIW, thanks for the great video and I can’t wait for the autopsy (though I’ve done a few for the same reason). BTW, I just converted those mowers to standard operation without the blade brake using a standard mower engine and pulleys / blade adapter.

Wow parts !

As Henry from Mowers And Blowers would say that thing is DUNSKY !!!!!~

Good thing Bruce has a ready engine from storage.

Wow should have some great parts on it

Damn Bruce, that looks worse than I thought. At first thought it was gonna be a flywheel key or something simple but no. Bad crankshaft wobble could be caused by bad connecting rod bearings due to low on oil. I agree with this. People really need to maintain there stuff and learn from there.

How's she goin'?  That was a death knock sound coming from that mower.  Especially when it was stopping.  And then when you showed the play in the crank.  Wow!!  No wonder it was knocking eh.  It did well to run as good as it did!!  Take care!!

Sorry Bruce the bushing is gone - such a shame - a 2 min oil check and yearly oil change would have avoided this - but good parts will come of it 🙂Thanks for sharing

That's interesting.

Hope to see you use another motor on it.

7:26  a 9mm  that may  first time  that socket was used

Many hours on that baby to cause that type of death rattle situation, rare that we see anything that bad here in Ontario.

Yon can not win them all but at least there are plenty of quality spares to be had.

Bruce. It started up on the first pull. It can't be the flywheel key. Plus, if the flywheel key was sheared or even partially sheared ithe pull rope would kick back and rip right out your hands

I replaced the top seal on one of these because oil was everywhere. The Honda part wasn't too costly. There's a bearing underneath the seal.

Mine had a knock the cap on the connecting rod, the bolts  were coming undone.