[Gompers]

Bought it planning on a full engine rebuild. It needs some help. Has sat for a while (oil filter was last changed in 2011, and it has less than 20 hours on it since that was done...). PO says it was hard to start and was "weak" when it was running. That's why it got sat. It's got 1400 or so hours on it. Not a ton, but certainly enough that it could need a rebuild.

Thought I'd pull everything out and clean it up and see what it's got. Compression test shows something like 35 PSI in both cylinders (they are consistent at least). Does this thing have ACR on it?

Squirting a little gas in the carb and turning it over it doesn't fire, but it does backfire a bit. It has spark at both plugs. Plugs were pretty nasty looking (black). Guessing it's burning some oil. New plugs and it might have fired off. Probably needs the carb cleaned out at any rate. Need to do a leak down and figure out what's no bueno.

Deck is pretty rusty. Haven't had a chance to look close at that yet.

It's in pretty dang good shape for what I paid for it, even if I do end up needing to rebuild the engine. These things are beasts. Sitting next to one of my 82 series tractors, it seems gigantic.