hi the only way to get it to go is change to another used plug You crank and crank but it wont go put a spare plug in and it bursts into life ,and you can stop and start as much as you like unless you leave it for a couple of hours thanks
might have last call is a new generator everything else has been tried its in the workshop at the minute with fitters with 250 years behind em uttering "nightmare" plug.carb,airfilter,cdi,reed valve ,piston kit. We live in hope I will update when we get there