On Nov 4, 9:10*am, Glia wrote:
On Nov 4, 7:12*am, "Stormin Mormon"





wrote:
The compression relief is a small assembly which pushes open the exhaust
valve very briefly during the compression stroke. There is some kind of
centrifugal sensor, so it only works under some RPM. Been a long time since
I've serviced one of these. Yes, the compression release is in the
crankcase. And you have to do a lot of disassembly to get at it. *The
compression release doesn't work if you turn the engine backwards. Makes me
wonder if the rope is wound wrong. No, come to think of it, the ball clutch
wouldn't let you do that.

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"Glia" wrote in message

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How hard is this to fix? Is this in the crankcase and requires
complete disassembly?

One more shot at the situation:
1. Pullstart comes to a screeting halt because of compression. With
lots of pull one can move it further but not with enough speed to
start.
2. Jump start from car works albeit with the engine running on the car
the lights dim thats how much the starter needs to draw. It too stalls
on every other attempt because it is to darn hard to move.

3. Spark plug removed, the crank moves easily and there is no oil or
anything coming out of the cylinder.
4. Once the unit starts, it runs fine. So there must be something that
makes turning the crank hard just during startup.- Hide quoted text -

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If it was to hard the gen starter would not start it, would it. Lights
dimming on car are a sign the gen battery is bad, that little starter
can only use so much current, its a single cilinder motor. Mine has no
compression release device.