I have a wood chipper with a Tecumseh OHV that does the same thing. Play with the primer to make it run for a minute, then, with some luck, it stays running. I suspect vacuum leak somewhere, but that is just going by what I would suspect on a car. The chipper is a 5.5HP... so you need some ooomph to turn it.

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