vharrison
Island Girl
Stephen, wow, glad to read you are still walking. Heal up my friend.
That’s some real hairy chested manly tree man shit right there. Git’er dun!!I wanna bill it out
Probably what happened is when you stuck the cord in the cylinder it went through one of the intake ports and is now jammed up in between the piston and port when you tried to remove the clutch. When you use a knotted up cord as a piston stop you need to make sure the piston is near the top of it's stroke before stuffing the cord in the spark plug hole.The problem is I can't see anything in the cylinder. There's a tiny portal looking through the exhaust port, and through the sparkplug hole I can only see the top of the piston. I'm guessing the piece of belt is mashed up against the top of the cylinder, and around the plug hole. A grabber /might/ work to go fishing, and hope I grab something, but I'm not super optimistic.
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IOW, this feels like one of those effort saving tactics that makes you regret not doing it the right way about 2 hours into the procedure :^D
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I could stick a wire through the exhaust port, and see if I can feel anything, and perhaps loosen it up. That would be easy enough. If I could get it loose, I could maybe grab it with forceps.
I guarantee I *did not* do this :^D Live and learn. I said I didn't want my first full teardown to be a tophandle, but maybe it will be. Doesn't do any good sitting in a box, and if I screw it up, I'll still have the parts. Won't be any time soon though. I'm nowhere near motivated enough for saw surgery.When you use a knotted up cord as a piston stop you need to make sure the piston is near the top of it's stroke before stuffing the cord in the spark plug hole.