A neigbor dropped off his Red Max Back Pack Blower ( EB 7000 Serial 126900)complaining that it would not throttle up. (he started it here, and it would not get past idle.) I did my usual cursory fuel changes, filter cleaning, etc. When I started poking around the ignition system, I found a loose spark plug, but after putting it back together to fire it up, I could not get it to pop at all! I looked all over it for an on off switch, but all I could find was a kill switch in the fold down handle that was not the sliding variety. you press it, it kills the engine. Did I get the good luck of the neigbor getting the last fire out of a module, (or points/condenser) or is there a switch somewhere else? There is no fire, and I even went so far as to hold on to the spark plug wire and pulling the cord. (sometimes you can feel that even when it won't fire a tester gap)

I just got a used 2005 Troy Bilt Generator with a 10 HP B&S Engine 204412-0163-E1. The engine starts and runs fine but only runs at full throttle which we checked today was at 5870rpms. When I took off the top cover I noticed that there were no governor spring or springs connecting to any of the linkage. Does anyone know how many governor springs there are and where they exactly go? I always thought that generator engines were suppose to run at 3600 rpms? Not sure why mine is running high rpms. Thanks JOHN