Handle Height Adjustment; Throttle Control Adjustment - Yard-Man 970 Series Owner's Manual

SECTION 9: ADJUSTMENTS
,_ WARNING:
Do not at any time make any adjustment to lawn mower without first stopping engine and
disconnecting spark plug wire.
HANDLE HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT
Lower Handle
Noah
Figure 10
Your mower is shipped with the handle in the higher height position. To lower handle height, proceed as follows:
• Remove the starter rope from the rope guide.
• Remove the upper handle by removing the hand knobs and carriage bolts. Lay the upper handle out of the
way, being careful not to bend or kink the cables.
• Remove the hairpin clips from the weld pins on the handle brackets. Press out on the legs of the lower
handle. Remove lower handle from the mower.
• Turn lower handle around so the notch on the bottom of the lower handle is facing forward. See Figure 10.
Reassemble, placing the bottom holes in the handle over the weld pins in the handle mounting bracket.
• Reassemble the upper handle to the lower handle.
• Place the hairpin clips in the inner holes in the weld pins and attach the starter rope as instructed in the Set-
Up Instructions.
THROTTLE CONTROL ADJUSTMENT
Clamp
On Engine
Figure 11
If the throttle control requires adjustment or if it has been replaced, adjust the throttle control as follows.
• Remove the screw shown in Figure 11. Remove the cable clamp from the cable.
• Push the throttle control lever on the handle all the way forward as far as it will go, then back it off one
"click". Make certain the throttle control lever remains in this position.
• Push the control lever on the engine as far toward the rear of the engine as it will go. Secure the cable in
this position with the cable clamp and screw.
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