Mark, perhaps you should have pluged up the decompressor hole with an old spark plug and tried that.
Never mind, you know what youve got now and its not bank breaking.
I hear what you are saying. I like buying the old full cranks. They are a good thing. I fix up the good ones, some get 4 stroke or Power torque motors on them, then the motors get sorted and put on utilitys or alloy bases with dead motors. Ive fixed up a couple and put them on Super 24's.
I sold a full crank the other day to a couple of american lassies. An orange one. Carb clean out and away it went, new filter and plug and a fresh pair of blades for good measure.
Ive another in the back shed thats got a fair bit of surface rust, its the $100 special to entice an up sell, if only they knew i had it out the front testing it, i set it on eat dirt and i couldnt push it fast enough to get it to stall out.
I have a sabre thats nothing special, all the shine is gone, but its complete, nothing broken, im going to have a hard time parting with it.
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Could have been a real curly one this one, had i got the carb back on and put fresh fuel in it. I spotted it by pure accident when i was checking spark while doing the pins on the carb.
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