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Message: [QUOTE="emolatur, post: 1395485, member: 119606"] It did smoke excessively when I very first started it, now when I get it to run it doesn't. I've discovered that it sheared the key where the generator rotor attaches to the end of the crank, so the timing is off. I gotta wait for a hardware store to be open tomorrow to pick up a new key... One of my "question targets" believes the key may have just been weakened from the sudden stop when the bearing originally seized. I guess I believe him since I can't find any other explanation, but other than loose/foreign objects in the generator area, is there anything else specific I should be looking for? [/QUOTE]