It's been awhile

[MustangMike]

I like the elastostart handles better … they are large and the rope gives a little stretch cushion.

It also may have been a bit flooded and hydro locked.

It will evaporate away.

 

[old guy]

It wasn't hydolocked the cyl was dry as dust.

 

[RI Chevy]

The D Handles definitely help.

 

[P.M.P.]

Thanks for all input Guys. I got it started today and I have a new theory: I'm going to be 80 years of age in another month and between it picking up a little more comp & me being tired from the afternoons work, I just couldn't pull it over. I'll put a D handle on SOB!

Squirt some mix in the carb might help along with the handle.

 

[old guy]

The D Handles definitely help.

Yeah, I had to put one on a 281 Husky I had.

 

[tree monkey]

double the coil gap, should help

 

[huskyboy]

double the coil gap, should help

Great idea. I’ve implemented that thicker gap trick when a saw needed just a hair less timing advance too (when I was too lazy to back off the flywheel clockwise lol).

 

[TreeLife]

double the coil gap, should help

How you doing, fella? Still working away or away from working?

 

[TreeLife]

New girlfriends always take a lot of money and a lot of time.

I could give him moar money if'n he wanted to sell one of his many 661's lol

 

[old guy]

double the coil gap, should help

Thanks, Scott, good to hear from ya, I may do that.
I put a D handle on it today and it works, but it is so ugly & flops around.

 

[TreeLife]

Thanks, Scott, good to hear from ya, I may do that.
I put a D handle on it today and it works, but it is so ugly & flops around.

A friend of mine installed a D handle on my 281, he put a small bolt in the rope hole to maintain space for the starter rope, and melted and pressed it into the area the original handle would go. Worked nicely.