This generator is ten years old and has got maybe 10 hours of run time. It was only for power outages and since I put the propane carb adapter on it they reworked all our power lines and we haven’t had more than about a four hour outage. So I have ran it on propane to make sure it would and that was pretty much it. On gasoline, if it’s been sitting idle for any time it will take at least a dozen pulls to start. My log splitter can sit all winter and summer and still fire up on a couple pulls in the fall and that’s just to get gas in the float bowl. After that it starts first pull. Probably a chinese clone engine as well. It’s a Champion. After I figure out what you guys are talking about with the alternator set ups I’ll get another engine for that and it will have an starter on it. I have the 420 cc Harbor Freight engine on my saw mill and it also sits for probably 11 months out of 12 and also never fails.