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    K301 Hard to start, not much compression but does not smoke. Is it valves?

    Engine runs, does not smoke but has been getting very hard to start. I can turn the engine two or more revolutions by hand using the flywheel screen and it turns fairly easily with little resistance. I took the head off and everything looks good. Not much carbon and the valves don't look burnt...
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    Throttle spring/springs went BOING!!

    I was not at home and my son was doing the trimming when he said the engine started racing then the rpm's went way down and it was barely running so he stopped it. Near as I can tell a spring/springs got caught on one of the branches of a bush. After searching the bushes and using a metal...
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    K301 Backfires and more

    Hi all, I have a K301 12hp that I bought 4 years. The guy I got it from said it was a shortblock from Kohler. It ran great for 3 years until it threw a rod. I took it apart and found that when the conecting rod broke it also broke off one of the wieghts on the cam. I found a used cam with the...
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