"John Keith" wrote in message
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Update:

The gasket between the carb and the air cleaner was pretty much
shot.
This mower has a prime button and it appears the air channel for
this
mechanism is routed underneath this gasket and through a small hole
in
the gasket. It successfully started a couple of times yesterday and
we'll see about today when I really need to use it.

After replacing this gasket and observing the primer button I got to
wondering, mowers didn't use to have prime buttons and they started
fine. Why did the manufacturers feel they needed to add that
complicating factor?


Probably because too many people didn't know how to use a choke...

And it ended up being cheaper....