Hi all,
I have an hrx217 that I bought used. It looks like it's seen little use. When I bought it, it had gasoline leaking out of the carburetor into the air filter. I cleaned the carb and solved that problem. Changed the oil and replaced the air filter. The machine runs ok but is a bit difficult to get started--not my usual one pull experience with honda. The choke has a manual lever on the handlebar and it seems to be fully engaging (hard to see but the lever on the control plate won't go any further). The coil air gap checks ok (0.3mm). New spark plug didn't help (ngk bpr6es). Would it help to pull the valve cover to check the valve lash (don't want to do it if that's not likely the problem)?