Reply To: Correcting fixed ignition timing

[davidbliss]

I got the key width wrong it was .035 thou wider and that amount of joggle would retard it quite some bit and has worked as with every thing fixed being modern so there no way of adjusting and I wouldn’t have thought such a small engine could be that vicious but it was. I have worked on the really old 40s Briggs with the peg that ran onto the crank then later they ran it off the camshaft that with wear was rather touchy, think the Kohler done same idea. nothing like the good old Villiers.