Just to add my 2 cents. If you don’t know what you’re looking at or looking for I would suggest tearing it down and taking the block to a machine shop to look over everything including the crank and bearing to get the whole picture and an estimated cost.
Jmo
Best of luck
That’s my motor and it was free for the taking😂
Sorry had to try and scare ya.
My neighbor was mowing his lawn one day and left the mower by the side of the road while he went a got drink. Came back and it was gone.
I believe you have shear/ drive pin in the prop. May need a little persuasion...
I made a puller from a mini golf flag holder 40 so
E odd years ago and it’s still working fine. There is more than one way to skin a cat. I’m sure if you look on the web you can find some homemade puller ideas if you don’t t have the funds to add to your tool collection.
Having a good relationship with a local dealer is like collecting gold. “Priceless”
They are few are far between these days but there will only be less if people don’t support them and any other small businesses for that matter.
Buy Local and support your community
I have no good advice here as I’m a packrat of the highest order. I know my day will come though and I’ll be in the same boat.
I do give stuff away all the time if I haven’t used it in awhile. As for the tools do you have a vocational school or high school with mechanical programs? When I was a...
That’s something I have never experienced and I’m ok with that. As a l kid I lived on a small barrier island and the sandbars would shift sometimes time and give us a little shake but I’m sure it is nowhere near the same feeling.
That could very well be the problem. Is that the dreaded gray fuel line? May as well check your filters as well and if you have that same line after the filter and before the carbs you may have some debris in the carbs. Do away with that line and go for cruise.
Any chance of a video of this happening?
There are several things that are possible.
Fuel delivery, intermittent spark, gear case, motor mounted to high, damaged prop caveating and so on