On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:49:05 -0600, Jon Elson
wrote:

Ignoramus16789 wrote:

Dragged out my snowblower and I noticed that it skips ignitions and
does not "fire" every time. What could possibly account for this?

i
Wow, you name it! Unstable mixture, water in the gas, dirty spark plug,
degraded magneto coil, bad points (if it has them), wrong ignition
timing (can be the shearable key in the flywheel), loose head bolts,
bad valves. Hmm, can't think of too many more.

Jon
My snow blower ran like **** till I replaced the muffler - square inch
hole was feeding exhaust gas to the carb intake. Runs much better now.