Did you sayLots of goop surrounding the clutch cover can cause that also, either inside or outside. It gets packed in there like a rock. Remove the clutch cover and clean/scrape it all out with steel wool.
A guy recently gave me a chainsaw that he said "no longer runs right." The entire inside of the clutch-side housing was packed with a pound of hard mud that had been there for years. It took a chisel, screwdriver and paint scraper to pry it all loose and scrape it out. Imagine what surrounded the clutch.
Yes, of course, but that had to stay in the shop. LOML would have refused to cook dinner that night had she heard what I said as I cleaned that mess up.Did you say
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