With respect and concern for safety, I must seriously disagree with your assessment of kickback. The lube of the shaft (though making it easier if not possible)has not a thing to do with kickback. Advanced spark timing, causing the cylinder coming up to fire before TDC, causes the engine to turn backwards violently. This twists on the handcrank drive mechanism in the same "drive direction, but opposite rotational direction. That crank arm will come around on you so fast that you cannot get out of the way.
Make dead sure of the timing. Put the crank in at the bottom. Pull up only 1/2 turn, do not spin ever. Keep your thumb and all fingers on the right hand side of the crank handle. Keep your body arms and face out of the rotational possible locations of the handle as though it were making 360.
The place for the crank is fine on the right side, but, even if you have been unhurt, the info could be dangerous. JimN
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