CaptHamster
08-21-2011, 02:42 AM
I hope I'm not annoying anyone with my questions, but it's getting worse and I'm really getting stuck.
185s is getting to the point of impossible to start now. It's not the recoil starter itself, but the engine. Curiously I've noticed that when starting it, it catches (hard!...my poor shoulder) whenever the valves move, both intake and exhaust. The piston seems to be moving fine inside, because inbetween valve movements the engine turns very smooth. But it only catches and gets really hard to turn at the point where the valves either open or close. I adjusted the valves to spec the other day, does that mean I tightened them WAY too much, adjusted them incorrectly, or is there something else to it?, like maybe something to do with the cam?
185s is getting to the point of impossible to start now. It's not the recoil starter itself, but the engine. Curiously I've noticed that when starting it, it catches (hard!...my poor shoulder) whenever the valves move, both intake and exhaust. The piston seems to be moving fine inside, because inbetween valve movements the engine turns very smooth. But it only catches and gets really hard to turn at the point where the valves either open or close. I adjusted the valves to spec the other day, does that mean I tightened them WAY too much, adjusted them incorrectly, or is there something else to it?, like maybe something to do with the cam?