After almost snapping my arm a couple times handcranking that old Ford KL, I swore I would never handcrank another engine again, uless it has a pull cord. The starter on my compressor works (12 Volt) and I will keep it that way. I see pipe wrench marks on the compressor hand crank shaft, but other than turning the engine over during installation, I have never used it to start it.
One thing I would reccomend you get on yours is a clapper for the exhaust. Mine didn't have this before I bought it, and the engine had some internal rust damage. Nice thing with those big 18mm sparkplug holes is you can almost crawl into the cylinders to see what is going on in them.
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