Honda Lawn Mowers

We bought a Honda Lawn mower, it is junk. 500 dollars for a unit that
weights a ton, stalls if you run it into grass just a little too long, and
sounds like it has marbles in its crankcase if it gets too much grass to
cut.
DON'T buy one, you will regret it. I do.

My next one will be a Toro or John Deere.

I can see why that guy shot his mower last week in the news. If I had a gun,
mine would be gone.

? PreacherMan ?

 

You sound like someone who would trade in a new car because the ashtray
got full.

I bet you I could fix it in three and a half seconds with a screwdriver
skillfully applied to the carburettor (high speed fuel mixture adjustment).

Failing that, I would make sure the governor is functioning properly, and the
'high speed RPM' is set correctly. Maybe even check the 'carburettor float
level', and the general cleanliness of the fuel in it.

Take it to someone who knows how to diagnose and tune small Honda engines.

Go-karters like to use small Honda engines.

Don't label something bad because it's possibly maladjusted.

 

Make sure you run it wide open.

Are you sure it is a Honda mower and not another brand with a cheaply built
Honda engine. According to Consumer Reports, the Honda engines put on other
brand equipment are not built as well as the Honda engines on Honda brand
labeled equipment.

A friend has a Deere hand mower. The blade shaft is too long and weak and
if you touch anything with it it bends. Happened to him and a friend of
his. It would be good for target practice though.

 

Dude your talking to the wrong person. I can build a race car from ground
up. Built and repaired lawn mowers for years.
The unit is maybe a year old and to have the problems I have with it is
unexcusable. The Honda quailty of my
CR-V I do not question, just the crap lawn mower

Just this week one of the black plastic knobs to loosen the handle cracked
and my wife lost it last nite. Fun getting a ratchet wrench out each time I
put my mower away.

If I only had bought a real mower.

 

It's a real Honda. It doesn't perform like the real thing but it is a Honda.

 

I bought a Honda mower when they first came out... probably 25 years ago.
It was junk. The spring to close the panel when you removed the grass
catcher was so tight it would almost take your arm off. The fastest speed
was too slow. And the system to power the wheels had a hidden belt that
only lasted one season of mowing a 1/4 acre lot and cost $80 to replace
back then. Sold it immediately after having belt replaced. Only thing good
was the blade stop system.

 

Top posting repaired.

You built lawn mowers for years? Do you have a foundry? Or do you
mean you _re-built_ lawn mowers. The only reason the mower "stalls if you
run it into grass just a little too long (just what is 'little too long' in
inches?)" is because it's not producing the rated horsepower (many varied
reasons of why that is, and easily fixable), or you are overloading it. You
can build a race car from the ground up, but you can't build a substitute
for a plastic knob? The lawn mower is not very old, and you found it
unsatisfactory? Why did you not return it to the place of purchase and
demand satisfaction?

Small engines are simple... all they need is fuel, ignition, and
compression.

Is the engine producing the rated horsepower (all the above 3 things need
to be functioning properly for that to happen)? Is it the correct machine for
the job you want it to do?

I have an eight horsepower Tecumseh Snow King engine. The first time
I used it (when it was new), the plastic throttle control knob fell off,
and would not stay on. Did I bitch and complain that Tecumsehs are junk...
no... I fixed it, with a drill, a tap, and a machine screw.

Fix your horsepower problem, or get a machine that will cut grass 'a little
too long' (whatever 'a little too long' is).

 

I agree, I bought one and I regret it more than any purchase I've ever
made. I bought mine in May 2006, had it back to the Honda service
center in July of 2006. They refuse to warrant their junk, it cost me
$179. Had to take it back in Aug. 2007, this time I was sure they
would cover it. Wrong! This time cost me $133. They not only make a
pile of junk, they refuse to warrant what they make. They are
crooks. It quit running again, Sept. 2008. I went and bought a Yard
King with a Briggs & Statton engine. Cost me $280. That is less than
the two repairs on the garbage that Honda markets. Plus that garbage
cost to begin with $500. plus tax. I got a much better machine now,
more power, easier to handle, it mulches better, cuts better, runs
better, if the Honda runs at all, which it is not at this time. As
for me, my family and all my friends, we will never own anything that
has the Honda name on it. Honda = GARBAGE