Many people will have no idea what you’re talking aboot.
But I’ll guess @cyclonengineer and @SkyzykS do.
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Despite being an engineer I only have a small working understanding of these kinds of engines from a mechanical trouble shooting standpoint.I can tell you the thermodynamics of a 2-stroke engine, but that is both boring and unhelpful.
I am assuming based on the above that @ChickenLittle has already checked the spark plug. Otherwise I would start with the easiest things - new gas, clean air filter etc…
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I almost went that far with my neighbors lawn mower because I clearly heard the moment when he chopped a stump with it and you could actually hear the gears smash through each other. Then I remembered that he was going to stiff me on the work anyways so I put it all back together and played dumb.
On the bright side though, he quit talking to me and avoids any contact or conversations now. 
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I know, but when I a kid there was nothing more than taking something apart to see what makes it tic?
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Yikes! That’s a nasty sound.
Since mine is a string trimmer it is virtually impossible for this to happen, but something is not right here.
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Only thing I can guess if it has sat for a while is that the piston ring may be sticking the piston in place. Can you feel it move when you rotate the flywheel?
I replaced everything on the fuel system.
Cleaned the tank, new gas, new filter blah, blah. Cleaned up the flywheel and coil to insure I was getting a good spark.
Going to go out a double check everything before I tear it down further.
Yes, I have compression.
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Yep - i’m out of ideas, lol
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It was. Then the swearing and whatnot.
I wonder if there isn’t another wire from the coil to the low oil sensor that isn’t killing it with an intermittent grounding/loose wire/gremlin.
Things like that can create confusion because you may get a weak intermittent current at the spark plug, but not enough for ignition.
Something similar was happening with my friends Harley a few weeks ago. The line from the rectifier to the battery was jiggly/broken, making the whole electrical system appear to have a poltergeist.
Gremlins.
Going to take this back to my log so we don’t derail this anymore than we have.
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Training Related: Going to start working on building strength again - probably utilizing 5/3/1 as it’s worked very well for me in the past; this past summer I mainly focused on maintaining what muscle mass I had while trying to lose fat / get in better cardiovascular shape (had really neglected that and wasn’t a fan). Also, speaking of cardio - I’ve been running about a mile and a half every day or every other day depending and am at about an 8.30 mile on average from about 10:30 when I started again…
Non-training related: working on some professional development stuff (PMP Cert) to push my career forward. Trying to get better at chess which is a slow, frustrating grind - I’m at about 950 rapid on Chess.com and 1400 Lichess - gained about 500 points on each site since November. Still terrible, but I enjoy it
Also, learning Chopin’s Nocturne 15.3 in G minor. Longest piece I’ve tackled thus far since picking up the piano about 3.5 years ago. Very fun piece, especially the 2nd section.
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Very brave of you!
Thanks … apparently that piece is an “easy” nocturne … it’s fairly straightforward imo … gets a little hairy during the middle section with double octave jumps on the left hand and a fast diminished chord run toward the end for 2 measures but wasn’t too bad when you break it down into digestible portions
I’m on the 3rd section now and it’s just a bunch of block chord progressions on the right hand and single notes on the left…
I’m lining up Bach’s Prelude in c#minor next I think…THAT will be a challenge
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We need before and after pics.
For science, of course.
Swimming has fallen off hard, but allow me to distract from my failure by highlighting a new achievement: turkish get-up on each side with 100lb KB. Hadn’t really been working towards it deliberately but notched it a bit earlier in the summer and it feels good to scratch something off the list.
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New goal: full-range, unassisted Nordic hamstring curl before November. Not actually sure how difficult this is. By a show of likes, who here has already notched this?
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It really seems to be individual on that one. We have some really strong people at my gym that seem to need band assistance to do them (not them exactly, but GHRs), and others do them like sit ups. Some of this comes down to how the GHR is set up, but still it seems like wide variation in this lift.
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You’re speaking about GHRs, right? Interesting. When I used to have access to a GHD I repped them out without too much difficulty. NHC is pretty challenging though.
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I’ll have to give it a try. I can do GHR without much effort. Just a lift I have noticed a lot of variation with among people (including really strong people).
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