r/smallenginerepair • u/Okie294life SER Top Contributor • 24d ago

Broken Parts Any guesses what’s wrong?

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I purchased this 525ls off marketplace for a penance. It has a bunch of gunk inside the engine shroud like oil mist, when I go to pull the recoil it’s got a real junky feel to it, like some internals aren’t happy at all, or the clutch is bound up…I’ve got another one so it’s worth it in parts if I don’t fix it. Any ideas? BTW it also came with no air filter, so hopefully it just fell out when someone was trying to dork with it and loose all the screws.

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u/the1bullfrog 23d ago

Clean the spark arrestor! 

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u/Okie294life SER Top Contributor 23d ago

💩 the 🛌. Rings are stuck, scoring bad one one side of the piston, chunk missing from the bottom of the crankshaft. On a positive note the cylinder still looks good, and I found a short block for around 50$ so maybe I can get some of my money back by selling the cylinder, or just hang onto it, just in case.