Saturday was spring clean-up, in the town I live...it's where everyone in town can set all of their junk by the road, and the sanitation company picks up Anything for free. I figure not all people's junk is actually junk, so Friday night I went driveing around to see if I could find some gems. I didn't find no chainsaws, but I did find a gem. I was driving around in one neighborhood, that people are known to have more money then brains, and I see a real nice blue push mower with bagger sitting next to a pile of trash, what I found was a Mack (like the truck) self propelled 3 in one, zero turn mower made by Ariens. I checked to make sure it wasn't locked up, and loaded it. I got home, checked the oil, put some fresh premium in it, primed it, and pulled it about 10 times, and nothing. I put it in the garage, and went to bed. Saturday morning I woke up, and decided to work on the Mack. The plug looked good, so I moved on to the carb, right away I noticed that the air intake was held on with 2 zipties, which was not even close to sealed, so the carb was sucking in dirt. I cut the zip ties, and removed the intake, sprayed some starting fluid in the carb, and it poped right off, ran for 2 seconds and then killed, I repeated the process a few more times, with the same results. Next I removed, cleaned, and remounted the carb, then off to the hardware store, to get hardware to properly mount the intake. I put it all back together, primed it, and she popped off on the first pull.....Success! Now everything including the transmission works as it should.....and I only have literally $1.55 in this mower.....it's a sweet PM for $1.55.