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Folks will argue that they do it all the time and never had one fail but what they don't realize is, while it may not immediately fail, they have almost certainly just shortened the life of that coil significantly. So now a coil that really should have lasted the life of the engine fails...

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If it were mine, I'd be comfortable with 32:1 but that's as thin as I would go personally. And you may never really know. It may not immediately fail but it could shorten its life.

I'm still curious as to how many hours were on the engine. I've seen homeowners who ran their equipment roughly an hour a week for 30 to 35 weeks a year. At 35 hours a year, times 23 years, that's only 805 hours. A well taken care of Kohler Command should run 3 to 4 times that many hours. Oil...

This doesn't really help your situation but just FYI, that engine was built on the 270th day of a year that ended in 6, 76,86,96,2006. Tecumseh lets you guess which decade. It would probably be a little unusual for a chipper/shredder, but this wouldn't happen to have electric start would it? If...

Not just Kohler uses welch plugs. And years don't really mean much. How many hours did the engine run?

Do you have the original regulator? If it's OEM Kohler there is a part number on it.

Yeah that's right. I forgot that the oil pump was driven by the balance shaft. For some reason I was thinking the pump was driven by the camshaft. Does anything else inside the engine look worn? A couple of other things come to mind as well. With the rod cap being soft aluminum, I would think...

I haven't been inside a CV single in a long time, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but wouldn't the relationship between the balance shaft gear and the crankshaft gear keep the balance shaft from being able to move enough to contact the rod cap even if the balance shaft bearing...

What is the spec number on this engine?

Sadly no. It would require a complete crankshaft. It might wear in and quiet down. Or it might cause some teeth to break.

There does appear to be wear on the crank gear and virtually none on the cam gear.

Do you think the camshaft was replaced? If the camshaft was replaced, and not the crankshaft, that can cause noise almost like a rod knock due to the unmatched wear on the cam and crank gears.

For the most part the engine sounds like it's running good. If you have an engine stethoscope that would be great. If not, this sometimes works. Take a screwdriver and put the tip against the block and put your ear against the hand you're holding the screwdriver with. See if you can tell that...

You don't have zero and you don't have infinity so I wouldn't be concerned with 0.40. I'd also check continuity from each stator lead to ground just to be sure. With all the magnets being stuck to the stator they obviously didn't come off while it was running or you would have had the same...

I think I heard something like metal on metal in the first video as you were turning but have no idea what it could be. In the second video, I didn't hear anything that sounded like metal on metal, but I did hear what sounded like a bit of a muffled pop out of the muffler.