The front of the engine has a set of gears that drive(from the crankshaft to the cam shaft, then to the side where the hydraulic pump (If it has a live hydraulic system, meaning that it will raise the bucket with the clutch pushed in) and distributor are located The cam shaft is driven by a keyway that locates the lobes in relation to the pistons. If the system wears the gear and keyway, it can fail with backfiring as a result. Other causes can also happen in the distributor system. Do a compression check. Buy or borrow a compression tester (make sure it fits the larger size spark plugs. Open the throttle all the way open, spark plugs all out, Ignition off, and fuel turned off. Crank the engine for at least 5 fill compression cycles. and read the gauge. It should be more than 120PSI. do the remainder, and tell us what the reading is. We will go from there. JimN
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Today's Featured Article - Picking Corn - by Rick Nikolich. It was the day before Christmas shutdown at work and I asked our lead engineering expert Scott Andrzejewski what he was going to do over the holidays. He said that he had some corn that he still needed to pick with an antique one-row New Idea corn picker. Scott has a nice farm about an hour north of Lansing in St. Johns, MI. He wanted to get the rest of his corn in by the next day (Christmas Eve). We had about an inch of new snow on the ground and single digit temperatures. So in the bac
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