With all this recent free time, I decided to till up some areas of my yard to lay down new sod; I recently got a hold of an old school Briggs powered tiller with 4 HP. Had no spark so I purchased a modern coil that doesn't use the points and contacts. I also cleaned out the fuel tank and cleaned and refreshed the carb with a rebuild kit. Slapped everything back together and got it cranking and running for a few seconds. Need to fiddle with the carb some more, but at some point the engine seemed like it locked up. I took off the rope/string crank to turn the flywheel by hand and it does turn but it stops after it looks like it does a full cycle...when I turn the flywheel by hand both directions, it stops.
I'm fairly new to tinkering with small engines so any help is very much appreciated.
I'm fairly new to tinkering with small engines so any help is very much appreciated.