Update, the engine was sitting on in my garage for a few months, I finally opened it up and surprise ! I can't find anything wrong. Except I did now what to look for so I took out the cam gear without 1st looking of pins were still aligned.
Here are some pics of the inside :
I moved the gear before taking the pic so I have no way of know if it jumped, but I see no damage on the teeth so I have to assume it did not jump.
the crank cover was a pain to pull off, thank fully I purchase an 8inch puller this summer , again I don see anything wrong.
The plastic / metal cam gear nothing broken, compression release arm does not look damaged.
Compression release arn :
Rest of the gear box , here I can't remove gear you on the center shaft , in some youtube videos that gear moved back ward and it just retained by a pin, could this have shifted ?
I did not take the crank and piston apart because those look fine.
So where does that leave me ? here the things I can think of.
- When I adjusted the valves I was not on TDC cycle but other cycle where the piston is on top with valves not fully closed, which would mean the valve lash was made worse when I adjusted , which make sense as the kick back was strong after I touched the valves.
- the ignition timing is off, I found some video checking the timing by printing out on of these :
https://www.blocklayer.com/degree-wheel.aspx.
- the shear pin for the fly wheel is really off , even though it look fine on the picture.
- Somethig else ?
I neglected to read all of the comments here, this one is golden "
You need to try and start with the blade on the mower. Starting without the blade can cause the kickback." Wow that blows my mind, I never thought this would be possible but I'll take you work for it !
Its my brother that beat up the mower and broke the blade. I'm just interested in fix it. So I will reassembly and bet another blade attachment and blad.
thank you for the blade comment, oh boy live and learn all that tear down, probably just because I tried to run the mower without a blad !
there is even a youtub video about this :