Those 99 dollar engines are awesome.
I’ve got three of them on go karts.
They cribbed Honda so closely the parts interchange.
Yeah, I give you that...but the crap metal they use to make them with...wow!
I had a friend that did a direct swap with a Honda engine on a lawn mower with one from HF.
Everything bolted right up.
Out of curiosity on his first oil change, I put one of those donut magnets out of an old microwave in the old oil...two days later it looked like it had grown a half inch of fur.
There were no shavings or metal pieces, but the amount of wear was just amazing.
I'll be surprised if he gets one more season out of it.
But then it was only like $279 bucks or so, compared to well over $1500 for the Honda.
You gets what you pays for.
“Those 99 dollar engines are awesome.”
See youtube etc for good commentary on those HF lawnmower engines. When new run them for one hour. Flush out all the oil that will have tons of ChiCom shavings. Put in new oil. Then you are pretty much OK.