Thanks. He's 14 and sometime last year decided he wanted to learn welding... I'm not a welder. He saved up his money and bought a welder, all the fixin's, and hundreds of YouTube videos later designed and built an offroad trike (that's him in my avatar pic). On a vacation to Fort Worth, Go Power...
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Replaced the 8deg advance key with stock key so timing should be set to 32deg now. Valve lash on the exhaust was a bit tight and made cord hard to pull, so we loosened that a bit. Cord snapped back and broke the spark plug cable so we replaced the coil and cable with a new one and...
Did not know that! Thanks. Just did a search on YT and sure enough, timing without a key... That's fantastic information. Degree wheel is now on the shopping list.
My teenager just built his first motor by himself putting a stage 2 kit on his Predator 212. He put the RACE Stage 2 kit from GPS on his engine with one slight modification (probably my fault), he used an 8-degree offset woodruff key on the new flywheel because I couldn't find any stock keys...