Find this disappointing!
 

I had a plate compactor at work that my customer couldn't get running, checked spark,fuel, air and then compression. Had forty pounds. Took a squirt can and put a little oil on top of the piston, checked comp and had 100 pounds!put plug back in and fired right up. Ran for two minutes or so pulled plug checked comp back to forty. So what is disappointing is you don't even think about rebuilding these engines with parts and labor your better off ordering new! What a throw away world we live in! If this was a k series 20 years ago no question it would be rebuilt!
My two cents!:beerchug:

Please don't get me started about the throw away society that we have evolved into.

I just don't have anything good to say about it.

It's only wasteful if you throw it out. Sounds like that plate compactor is gonna be the newest cub implement! Let's see.....remove the engine, install a pulley on the input shaft. Weld a sleeve hitch on one end, use a tiller mule drive and rear gearbox.....hehe :biggrin2:

Bill

Not bad!:ThumbsUp: Or maybe even attach it to the belly like a mower deck.:biggrin2:

Lol Berwil
 

The plate compactor is getting repowered with a honda, and I'm a Hollander so I'm finding something to do with the robin Subaru I pulled off of it. If I rebuild it on my own time it might be worth saving but when the customer is paying 72 bucks an hour for labor it gets expensive fast!!

Then, you would be ready to go mole hunting!! :bigeyes:

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