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Old 06-06-2014, 08:44 AM
Eslenk Eslenk is offline
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Originally Posted by J-Mech View Post
I'd come nearer to saying that you have a valve hanging up, or bad gas/water in fuel. Does it smoke black when it stumbles?

If it was a magneto, it wouldn't come right back.
When I cleaned the carbon off the pistons, heads,etc., I cleaned the valve stems too and they were not tight in the guides. This was done about 50hrs. ago.

Fuel is fresh at each cutting, at worst a week old.

Sometimes a puff of black smoke and the smell of running rich when it stumbles.
I wouldn't say a large cloud of black smoke.

Thanks, Ed.
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