Pick up some 6m threaded rod a tad longer than the Honda bolts. Get nuts to fit the rod. Loosen ONE side only pull out the bolt, replace it with the threaded rod, then do the other side. Easy to remove as many pieces as you want and also when replacing them. On a side note; I replaced a Kohler powered Toro's auto choke mechanism with a hand choke too. WAY cheaper than buying all the components of the auto choke system.

The wax cartridge appears to be removed from the block, the square shape opening above the intake port. That is what opens the choke when it warms up.

I had a Honda HRX217HYA with the auto choke my grandfather bought for me brand new, it never really started easy nor did it ever really run right. I even replaced the carb with a genuine Honda carb, it ran the exact same and if I let it sit for 2 weeks without using it, the idle circuit would get plugged up with IDK what. If it sat for a month, the thing took like 30 pulls to start. Pretty sad when your 45 year old push mower with 1000+ hours on it fires up first pull with the same gas out of the same can when the new mower won't cooperate.

Great idea Jason... Great job!!

Great choke mod. Well done! 👍

Always good to see you and the video. Take care and hope mama is doing well. Take care my friend

Yep I had a older Honda with manual choke . I ended up replacing carb. And it took a long time to get it right. Including all the gaskets which I had to replace as well. Comments on that vid were that it was painful to watch. And I didn’t cut much out

Maybe assemble all the carburettor bits and gaskets onto the plastic air filter cover and then offer the whole lot up to the bolt holes. I have seen someone else do this successfully.

I never knew these came with autochoke. I have got a 1997🤪 Honda with man choke that was laid up in a shed for I dont know how long.I managed to get it going and TBF , its been a great workhorse. Apart from oil changes and air filter , I have never changed the plug to my shame , but it still starts and works great.The two levers on the handle are for drive and blade disconnect . Shut off with throttle lever. One of the bolts to the Muffler/Exhaust is no longer there so its really going exhaust...less. I am trying to cobble it together somehow. P.S I run the carb dry after each cut.

Very nice modification.💯

Take a larger fender washer for your outside washer and bend a lip facing down on one side of it and place it on top of cable with the bold to keep cable from moving away from bolt

I just replace my auto choke and thermowax, I wish I saw your fantastic video before I purchase the original Honda parts. I think you should lengthen your cable kill shut off, looks like it's in a bind. Thanks for your video..

re-engineering Is Fun !!

Brilliant!!!!

A simple cable /wire hanger that's rubber coated would do what you're trying to do w the washers .

I agree with everything you said. Mark Nye thefixitguy here and I've been doing small engine repair for almost 40 years and the HONDA GCV motors are the worse with the Themostat Wax Choke Assembly...but almost all the GCVs are just a bad idea for Honda and I think that's one reason they stopped making them. I had thought about a manual choke on these motors so I just might do that on my next repair. Honda makes studs for the GX motors ( which are one of the best motors out there and have no idea why they do t use them on all mowers and equipment). The studs mount into the block and then you install the gaskets and carburetor etc.. that's a much better design. All the equipment that is made now fails in just a few years. Briggs and Stratton back in the 70s 80s built probably the best motor. The I/C 5HP. That engine was indestructible.. Now Briggs and Stratton makes a plastic carburetor for their engines. Poor design but they are so much easier to work on than Hondas. I also have to complain about Hondas EU2000 and EU2200 inverters. What a nightmare they are to work on and replace the recoil rope or work on the carburetor

As Lawrence Carrol wrote about: 2pcs Fully Threaded Rod M6 x 100mm 1mm Pitch 304 Stainless Steel Right Hand. EBay. They save a lot of aggravation. Excellent solution to the auto choke issue, by the way! -- Old Matt

Did you remove the Therma Wax device from the engine block that engage the choke automatically, if not it's going to still engage/disengage when the engine operates.

Jason, what did you do about the engine stop cable.

Put some hair on those holes brotha 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Is there no reason to remove the wax thing or remove the auto choke all together? It doesn't interfere with the manual choke?

I thought I was the only one who found the lineup with the two bolts frustrating as hell.

Looks like the wrong carb for that motor

Jason, how many clamps come in package? If I was still working zip could get them at work. Look like clamps for tubing.

So you changed the carb as well?

Hello, my fellow small engine mechanics. I need some advice on an engine fix. I am working on a simple 2 stroke echo weed whacker. Put a new carb on at the beginning of the year and it quit working 1 month after. Pulled it apart to investigate and found the new fuel filter somehow was not attached to the fuel line. That makes sense why it quit working i think, order another carb, install it, and she runs great as i expected her to, however it only lasts a half a day. She starts giving me signs of not getting gas. She starts up with the choke and idles a bit rough with it off, then once the throttle is hit she immediately dies. Even when warm she needs the choke to start. Im pretty confident its a gas problem, but also confident its not the brand new carb, or brand new fuel lines/filter. Any ideas what else could be cause my problem? Btw she revs good when run on carb cleaner through the intake. Thank you in advanced.

hahahahaha, ur so mad @ honda u forgot the existence of Straps. lol. i can feel u bro. i realy am. cheers

The auto choke system is All choked up on this engine 😮

This is what goes bad on the Honda auto choke Honda 16620-Z8D-305 but el manual works better hahahaha

Honda's very dumb designed model !