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Take the shroud off that contains your recoil. You will see a square lug sticking out from the middle of your flywheel. There is probably 2 or 4 screws with a 1/4" head on them holding a csreen in place. Remove the screen then pop the cover off the square lug. There will be 5 steel balls in there. Catch them. Then pull the square lug off and clean and lub the shaft sticking out and also the hole in the square lug. Reinstall everything. If you don't, the recoil spring will eventually wind backwards and break.
 
That starter clutch usually has a pin-hole on top to put a few drops of oil in. That squealing is just the dry crankshaft stub spinning inside the clutch.
 
This sounds very doable. Thanks for the heads up. I will be giving this a try either tomorrow or Friday, depending on the weather.

Do you suggest gun grease like I'd use on my tractor or implements to lube the shaft?

I took a short video so you can listen to the squeal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMGG_7rYXfg
 
Well, I did as you requested, and oiled it with some decent weight liquid oil (instead of gun grease). It started right up with no squeal! Fantastic; thank you guys so much. Got the whole garden tilled in a matter of hours (only took 2 full tanks of gas, too).
 
Glad to hear it and I think I have one just like it got from a coworker who got it from his FIL years ago and sat in his garage so long that the gas tank was full of what appeared to be syrup which was old gas that went bad so I had to put on a new gas tank and soaked the carb for days in carb cleaner, took the head off worked the stuck exhaust valve put er back together put some gas direct into the sparkplug hole after a couple restarts and she"s ran great ever since. She smoked white smoke for a year or two (only use it a couple weeks a year) but now she starts on the second pull with no smoke and uses no oil. The whole thing cost me the price of a new gas tank. I"m thinkin oil consumption and smoke was a stuck ring. Mine is a 1970ish because of Briggs spec numbers HWI 22" 5hp front digger. I"m due to drag everything out of storage soon I"ll post some pics. It"s too bad Briggs has gone to China they"re sure putting out junk now. I also have both a Lawn-Boy and MTD 22" mulcher/trimmer mowers with identical Tecumseh engines now they"re gone. HMMMM!!
 
Luckily the B&S website actually had a parts list and manual for the engine model of the tiller (at least one very close to it). Unsure if they still make spare parts, though. It pretty much starts in one pull now, just have to change the oil every now and again and replace that air filter, and it keeps going year after year.
 
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