Hi everyone,I thought I was quite clued when it come to engines but my new (2nd hand) generator with a GX160 engine has me completely stumped. As you may know it has a governor.. why does it lowers the revs when I apply a load/power tool? Surely it should up the revs, right? Also, the air/pilot screw is 5 turns out, is this correct? If I rev the engine quickly and shut off the throttle it pops on deceleration, could the screw be the cause? My spark plug looks OK. It's as if the whole thing has been stripped and not put back properly. I've tried adjusting the governor by turning the shaft the opposite way but this just revs the engine into oblivion. Any help would be much appreciated, Lou

hello! We have a Toro personal pace lawn mower that has given us many years of good service. A couple of weeks ago, however, it started to run a little weaker. Not knowing a lot about lawn mowers, I changed the air filter thinking that might be the problem. But it has progressively gotten worse. Now when it starts, it sputters really bad and when you start mowing it almost always shuts off like it doesn't have enough power to cut grass at all. I have thought that it could also possibly be the spark plug but I don't know. We are planning on taking it in to get it looked at by a professional, but that always costs money and doing it yourself is more fun and cheaper, especially when it turns out to be something simple. Any thoughts and suggestions would be helpful.