Originally Posted By: Eugene
Dads old 1950's John Deer two cylinder gas engine is almost impossible to hand crank, I don't know how they did it.

If it is a John Deere check under the cylinders for decompression taps. They meant them to open for starting and they closed them as soon as it fired up.
On the one I had they looked like little water valves with a swing handle.
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