HOW TO FIX a Hard Start~Kickback (Cord Jerks Back) On A Craftsman Tecumseh 5.5hp Engine-Snowblower
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ม.ค. 2022
- Craftsman 22inch Snowblower Hard Start Kickback
Tecumseh 5.5 hp Engine
This machine would start but it was hard to pull and would kick back yanking the pull cord out of my hand!
Often timing and ignition problems are the cause.
Lets find out how I fixed it.
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Great video Arch guaranteed it was a bad ground on that coil. Water in the fuel tank easy peasey removal : drain fuel tank and carb of all fuel then dump in K100s+ fuel stabilizer noting that equal parts of K100s+ with whatever volume is in the tank will guarantee to eliminate the phase separation and fire the machine right up. Had a customer dump a 237 ml bottle into his fuel tank that had hardly any fuel in it (cost him $10 Cdn) and his snowblower fired right up. He ran it a few minutes then added fresh fuel and it has been running without issue the last two years. Basically that $10 saved him the cost of us doing a carb cleaning and fuel tank flush and clean. The OLD MAN at EP over and out!
no fuel in that tank, it was dry as a bone. it ran off what I sprayed into the plug hole
Probably a bad ground but the rust can cause a timing issue.
Great video Arch keep up the great work
Thanks,,, & thanx 4 watchin!
Thank you very much for your time !! 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Simon for watching
Ta for the video mate .. as always a very professional video
Thanks Mick!!!!!!!
well done video
Thank You
Thank You’ll 😊
Thanx Phillip!
Your right about the rust issue on the ignition coil rust can cause the spark . plug speak color to not be the right color for proper ignition of the gas air mixture
Absolutely,. I'm not sure but I think it also screws with the timing. It could be that it messes with the spark advance as determined by the ignition coil electronics.
Either way, there seems to be a benefit to cleaning this. Mowers have a brake shoe that helps, these don't.
I don't know, with a solid state ignition, how the spark is delivered @ the precise time! I only know points/cond type. I have this same problem bad on a log splitter engine now. Yes, it's a so called 5HP Tecumseh. I am going to try all you did here. Thanks!
Good luck, you should be able to get it working,,,let us know!!!
Thanks for watching!!
haven't even checked yet but my "like-new" craftsman tiller probably has the same powerhouse if i had to guess. i hit a root ball from a huge himalayan blackberry and then it had the same pull start kickback for a few days til the cord broke yesterday... the cord, not the spring... i'll focus on the remaining 20 minutes and see what you ended up finding as your culprit.
and carb would not have been on my list of suspects but i know next to zilch about small engines. i am guessing it is the key pin on the flywheel or maybe we get lucky and find tight lifters but no sense in that on mine as it didnt kick back on the first day i used it
Yea, try the flywheel key!! At this point ya gotta inspect the engine and take off the cover to fix the pull starter!
Good luck!!!
Tanx fer watchin!
Hi Arch, did you change the flywheel ? I noticed that the beginning of the video showed the flywheel has no ring gear for electric start, but toward the end of your video, I noticed the flywheel has a ring gear for electric start.
Good catch!!
No its 2 different machines, very similar. I wanted to show more on the ignition issues...
@@TheNovaJohn SURE MAC SURE! Why were you looking for kick back at the END on a DIFFERENT machine??
My pressure washer has this problem and it nearly broke my hand, I yanked on it and bam it nearly ripped my arm off
Watch this, it should help.. I will have another soon but there is a folder with a number of similar videos
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Chainsaw pull cord kickback
Spray 'DEEP CREEP' on that head bolt every day for 3 yrs, and guaranteed, that bolt will be fine.
LOL,,,
most of us agree heat is best BUT once somethings has been loosened then some kind of lube is great
That said, I have used acid for years and that works well, especially on frozen brake line fittings but there is the possibility of other issues
Ignition coil has NOTHING to do with kick back......if an engine is kicking back it is firing too soon SO out of time...bent flywheel key or broken key. The flywheel MUST come off to be sure the key is not bent. On an overhead valve engine the valve setting MAY be WAY out and cause kick back.
All good info but not relevant to this engine!
@@TheNovaJohnThe FIRST engine was kicking back...so RELEVENT to it. That is what the video is supposed to be about...kick-back. That LITTLE movement you showed in the flywheel when you took it off WAS the problem. If it is a 1/16 at the key it is 1/4 inch out at the magnet so....out of time.
Look closer, the key is fine, these keys fit nice in the broach, unlike some briggs I've seen and would agree with you on those, in fact I've shown this in other videos.
I have seen aftermarket coils that wont work right because the timing is off inside the little computer.
These keys don't suffer damage from a blade hitting something as the belts take up all that shock and sheer pins do the bulk of the work. Even if someone put a bolt in place the pin, the belts would still buffer.
1/16 isn't possible, again look closer and lets say its a mm, well that's still a stretch.
We could say its a compound issue. These are old now, for all we know a piece of carbon could have been on a valve or seat or just rust and oxidation.
Most people have no clue what we are saying, ya have to remember, I'm trying to get people to service an old machine, they get overwhelmed quickly and their eyes glaze over when I get to technical!
So overall I'm not sure why you write with capital letters, I get the picture that your looking to correct my efforts and not to be helpful!
People are so quick to criticize, you have a channel, make some more videos and show us, take some real time and do it, instead of being critical or learn to write in a way that is less insulting.
Its easy to sit on the sideline and poke!
@@TheNovaJohn Here is the problem...you used 2 different snow blowers pull one over at the end of the video and said SEEMS FINE....well it was a different blower OR a different flywheel and you said NOTHING about it...someone just NOTICED it. I have worked on small engines for 50 years...no piece of carbon on a valve, no coil will do ANYTHING until the magnet GETS TO IT, faulty or not and I have seen LOADS of snow blowers with bent keys. Backfire, chunk of ice, flywheel nut not torqued, a magnet off the flywheel and jammed, a broken alternator under the flywheel...on and on.
watch the video again, I mentioned it, I showed it.. not gonna argue here. I did the video, its helpful and to quote you, 'here's the thing' ....make ya own video.. I've heard this all my life, been doing it for 30 years, 50 years, that's good.
Seems like your stuck trying to prove something here.. Make a video. I'm trying to be nice and I'm loosing my patience.. Thanks for watching and hit the thumbs down!