creia wrote:The first thing I would do (before spending any $$) is set your valve lash properly (.004-.008") then try starting it again. When old "T-Man" was on this forum (I miss him

) he said set them both to .006", which I have been doing for years. I bet when you do that you will find that it is easier to pull the starter cord by hand then it was before, and.... it just MIGHT even run!
Michael
When old "T-Man" was on this forum (I miss him Back in T mans days on the Perr forum's he helped me on some Tecumshe's that I would bad mouth and T man would correct me fast.
The T was for Tecumseh MAN.I did not care for working on the hunting and surging Tecumseh's engines, they were just not as user friendly as the old Briggs engines..
Had a H-35 on a generator that would not run good due to me being on the wrong H35 spec page in the Tecumseh L-head manual I had replaced the adjustable timing magneto and set the timing wrong. T-man got me on the right page using the code for the year of manu and now days I have some old good running Tecumseh's.