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Originally Posted by fastfredracing
If the valve seats, or valve faces were experiencing some serious wear, the valves would retreat up into the head, making them tight .
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that's the only other explanation I could come up with . the mower looks like it has not been used much though. I would hate to think that is it with so low time on it.
I have heard about that compression release but don't know anything about it.
I don't know why she would not tell me someone else worked on it.
I found the porcelain broken on the spark plug. not sure if it would keep it from running but I suspect it did and someone tried to fix it and adjusted the valves.
seems pretty odd they would try to adjust valves and not check the plug though.
I suspect this will go down with the Kennedy assassination mystery