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    Is this piece meant to be attached to the flywheel cup?

    BVS 143. This part which I suspect is intended to be a debris shroud and possibly a cooling aid sits below the recoil housing and span with the flywheel. Lately the engine started making metallic banging sounds which I now know were this piece knocking against the flywheel. In the first video...
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    BVS 143 - What to do, rich running, horrible spark plug, constant misfiring

    This is a continuation of sorts of my last thread from over a year ago. My dad has a Tecumseh BVS 143 on a Mountfield Empress 16, we believe bought in the mid-80s. It gave very good service for about 30 years but missed several seasons over the past few years, predominantly because for a long...
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    Tecumseh BVS 143 (Mountfield Empress) - Won't start, oily spark plug, stiff jerking pull

    Hi all, new here, We've got a mid-80s Mountfield Empress 16 with a Tecumseh BVS 143 engine. Solid machine which ran flawlessly until a few years ago when it got progressively more tricky to start and ended up being retired due to inheritance of another machine. Cut a long story short, I want...
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