Hi Gizmo, curious about the above comment. My understanding is that the engine needed the blade disk and blades to balance correctly, or it won't run correctly? I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I have both read that here and experienced it myself. Does that sound right? If so, how do you run a PT on a bench? Just curious as to your setup.
pretty simple really. i have a large piece of steel beam that has pre drilled holes in it to accommodate victa and villiers engines.
and they run just fine without the blade disc attached. i haven't ran a powertorque on it though. but the engine i am talking about is the victa engine on my 24 which is a full crank.
i test all my engines this way without a blade disc. honestly haven't had an issue with it. if you are referring to a powertorque well i don't know, never tried it.
I forgot the origin of this thread was referring to powertorques, but i was experiencing very hard to pull starting with my full crank also .
which is why i sought the same solution.
as for an explanation as to how they are to start,( imagine it has no decompressor).
