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  1. silverstate55

    8V92 Coughs but Won't Start (SOLVED!)

    My replies are in yellow text below each pic. G744 is correct about the fuel filters; when is the last time you’ve changed them? Your videos still indicate to me that the engine isn’t getting fueled, and the little bit of white smoke is probably from the residual fuel residing in the fuel...
  2. silverstate55

    8V92 Coughs but Won't Start (SOLVED!)

    If none of that works, then it’s worth checking the blower drive shaft (quill shaft), accessible by removing cover plate on gear drive at back of engine. There’s a circular retaining ring (internal snap ring) that can be removed with needle-nose pliers in order to pull out drive shaft, just be...
  3. silverstate55

    8V92 Coughs but Won't Start (SOLVED!)

    That little amount of smoke I saw is very light for that engine…it should be billowing a pretty thick cloud of unburned fuel. Check for the blower intake flapper; if you’re only seeing pipe plugs in the blower intake neck and no linkages sticking out, then there’s no shutoff flapper (none of...
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