Recent content by DrFistington

Are there any good posts/videos you could point me towards that show how to adjust the valve lash on a side valve engine?

Thanks for the advice, I had made sure to check the flywheel key and that was good, and there hadn't been any hard stops. Its sounding like it may be a valve lash issue, so I'll try checking that next. From what I can tell the valve laps are good and the valves are closing sealing when they...

I have a wood chipper that had been giving me some grief lately, it has a B&G model 135212-1196-E1 5hp engine. The initial issue was that the engine would start up if I put some gas in the spark plug hole and gave it a few pulls, but it would quickly die. I cleaned out the carb since it was...