Back story,
Bought this off craigslist several months ago. Pushed it off trailer beside barn and left it till now. Guy said it ran but smokes, I decided to pull it into the shop and tinker on it last night. Low and behold the first push of the starter fired it up. Then I found this….LOL

I’m not sure how it was even running. To top it off this is the quietest smoothest 300 motor I have ever heard.