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In Reply to: Re: I.D. this engine posted by Wheat47 on June 21, 2020 at 15:35:04:
My brother the mechanic, always says the farmers would put up with a lot of cranking and frustration before they'd pay a few bucks for a magneto tune-up. If they'd done it routinely every spring they'd have had good luck. I don't think we ever looked around for a higher quality magneto, and I don't remember using starting fluid to get them going. It wasn't fun when a shear pin let go on the Super 77.
When they came with distributors and electric start, heard no complaints. But that cost substantially, like 100 dollars for distributor, generator, starter, and battery. I used to listen to an old neighbor tell me about how wonderful that the self-starter was invented. He farmed with a 1939 Farmall H.
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