Diagnosing a Honda GCV160 That is Hard to Pull the Start Rope

In this video I go through troubleshooting a Troy-Bilt w/ Honda that I got from a yard sale that had been sitting. Turned out the cam compression relief had failed and made the rope really hard to pull.

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