Well had already removed most of the powder coat the reason being, as you will see in the first pic, there was bad corrosion over a lot of the area. I did however sand to key in on all the remaining powder coat, then primed with left over etch primer this morning. Hope it will suffice.

Regarding how much work this TAC has done; that thought had crossed my mind when opening the crank and it looking almost new lol. Will leave it be.

Re the 40-1, the engine had tried to be started multiple times and it had lots of oil in it, only used a little to see if it would start when O rings were added etc. Normally I always use 25-1.

For the record have included a couple of pics (haven't seen them posted before) of taking the spring pressure off the tilt mechanism to dismantle and using a puller on the pulley, flywheel combo. Recalled a post by Grumpy explaining to tighten puller a little and tap the 'bolt' end tighten again progressively. Certainly seemed to be needed in this case as it was extremely tight and a worry with the cast iron, worked great thanks Grump.

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