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It goes in front of the carb and limits how much air the engine can get. It is used in different racing associations to try and make all the engines equal in horepower. Therefor making it a driver sport, not a power sport. NASCAR does it too.

Your not running a dirty air filter are you?

I have a Sabre too that i have always wanted to spruce up. Nice work :thumbsup:

Dirty carb then? Causing surging?

If its a complete shear you can tell. But if its only a little distorted it might be hard to see.

To check the key you need to take off the engine cover and the flywheel. The key keeps the flywheel aligned on the crankshaft.

Use a self tapping bolt of the same diameter.

I got it to work. It only grounded to the bare engine block. Not anything else i touched it to. Wierd:out:

The switch wasnt on yet. I put the flywheel on and spun the motor with a drill. I was watching the spark and touched the open end of the wire to metal and even touched it and felt nothing. The spark just kept going. What i did was loosen the nut, put the bare wire behind the washer, and...

Trying to hook up a kill switch to my 5hp engine off a snowblower. I attached the new wire (red in picture) to where the old one came from. (White end of wire in other picture) Im spinning the engine with a drill but get spark reguardless if the new wire is grounded or not. Where am I...

I think my HS50 has a 3/4 hole. But im just going off memory.

Give us the numbers off the engine so we know what you have. But it sounds like its just a dirty carb.

Nope, dont think so