Did you clean that surface rust off the flywheel magnets? Clean the
magneto contacts and adjust the gap?

I always do so while the flywheel is off, if the engine has a magneto.
Anyway, glad things worked out well for you.


I didn't bother with the magnets, and left the gap where it was. Is this
critical? The engine fires up with the first pull and AFAICT runs just
fine.