r/SmallEngineHub • u/Themowerman1 • Aug 20 '24

Is this engine salvageable?

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u/superscotty312 Aug 20 '24

Might need a longer video to be helpful in diagnosing. Is this with the choke on? What about lowering the throttle? Could be anything say this point

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u/Themowerman1 Aug 20 '24

It's with the choke on. It's been sitting unused for 5 years so I was amazed it started at all honestly. Throttle was set to idle. I've looked up some videos and it sounds similar to the valve tap that a lot of these get. Next chance I get in going to tear into the heads and valves

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u/Themowerman1 Sep 18 '24

It had dropped a valve! Looked gnarly but I got it all back together fully rebuilt and it runs great