Recent content by Rick O

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No, I did remove it to clean and make sure rust was not interfering with the ground. Would a coil act up on slower RPM? I also pulled the flywheel bolt to look at the key from the top without pulling the flywheel loose. When I accellerate it by hand she sounds good, but slow idle speeds are...

done all of that. It seems to pop on the exhaust side and fart back through the carb. I may try a coil and plug but I am now wondering about a worn cam lobe.

It is a 38" riding mower. I pulled the head again and lapped the valves today and they were ok as I suspected. I also looked at the flywheel key and I adjusted the gov. I put on another carb which is a little better but it pops and farts intermittently. It must be a worn camshaft. I was thinking...

new carb and no dirt or restriction as I replaced all lines from the tank and filter with fuel flowing freely. It appears to hiccup or fart occasionally, but not backfire. Full choke runs the best but runs at a higher RPM, Compression gage read 90 psi in about 4 revolutions.

Does the compression release ever break or malfunction where it is always engaged so as to affect the low speed and need full choke to run at full speed?

I have another one coming. You can't beat Temu for giving you a refund when the thing doesn't work so you can order another for $10. When running on full choke the speed is increased so I am not sure what it would do if I tried to idle it down.

Clean all the rust from the coil and engine mounting points and then see if you need none.

I bought this thing full of gas in the crankcase. Pulled the tank cleaned and replaced all hoses, filter with a shut off valve. Would only run with choke on and best with full choke with an occasional fart and would hunt on slow and die. Put on a new aftermarket carb. Pulled the plug and cleaned...