I recently started buying used and returned lawn equipment. I'm no expert on repairs but have a pretty good understanding of mechanical and electrical equipment. One of the pieces I got is a ryobi 760 cfm backpack blower(ry38bp) that would start and idle but died when throttled. I started at...

I just picked up a pretty sweet one owner lawnboy 7263 from around 1974, which supposedly runs, however the recoil assembly is malfunctioning. I found a video how to remove one but it looked like a slightly different engine. There is a nut that is supposed to loosen which allows the recoil...