Perhaps for electonic ignitions. Less so for points.

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"Bob F" wrote in message
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Jules Richardson wrote:

I suppose - it was the "hang up" that made it sound to me
like they
meant it was suddenly jamming, though.

A key problem wouldn't usually make it hard to pull,
surely? Just very
hard to get it to actually fire up because the timing
would be shot,
assuming it'd even run at all - but it'd still turn over
as easily as
it ever did.

It will indeed. It'll fire before the cylinder gets to TDC,
and will jerk the
cord HARD. Hard enough to break the rope in some cases.