Gentlemen, recently gifted this machine, it has sat in my father-in-laws garage for years, comes with no hood or battery and I never actually seen it run. Today I checked oil, appeared very clean, put gas and a battery in it and it started right up, only ran few minutes, cut of and refused to start again. Below are the labels I have located and I hope someone can shine some knowledge on me about machine.
If it came to me the first thing I would do is pull the float bowl and see what the condition of the carb is. If it was sitting that long debris in the carb may have float around clogging the jets.