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Well, I had an idea to pull the piston down the cylinder so I could see what the rod was doing on the crankshaft, and this is what I got. I think the bearing is blown.....

Yeah it's full on oil, checked that earlier

My carb is cheap and doesn't have a fuel air screw. It only has the throttle adjustment screw. It will start, but I am concerned with the fact it wont rev and that there is a squeak and knock.

Ok, update time. Been away all week at my supervisor's house so I could make it to work. So I did a little work today. Bought the impact wrench and took the clutch off first and tried to crank the beast up. Still very hard to start. Now I took the flywheel and variator off and the variator looked good, didn't seem like there was any damage to the crank shaft or the transmission shaft. However, after trying to crank the thing up, what I notice is that the starter bendix is ALWAYS engaged AFTER I have tried to start the thing up. As if it is staying out and binding up the engine. Unless my socket bushing is binding it up, but I doubt it because even without it in it will still be hard to start. Here is a video I took, let me know what you think allyoop.

Nope it's not that, got it jacked up and the wheels won't move. Got the brake pushed so only the sensor clicks. I'm thinking it's the variator or the shaft it's on, maybe the bearing?

Ok, so I put my battery tender on it all night to charge the battery. I just made a new vid ill post here as well. So what I noticed yesterday was that there is a bushing for the bendix that was missing. I made one out of a 5/16 socket. Fits inside the bushing hole and fits around the bendix shaft. I put that in and it works to a degree. Here in the video you can hear the bendix disengaging while I'm in the middle of cranking the engine. At the beginning of the video you can hear the engine fire up and start to rev, but as I'm revving it up you can hear the belts begin to squeak and then it dies. After that its mostly just alot of cranking. But right now I think I may have two problems that just happened to both start around the same time. Probably one is the bushing/bendix. And the other is whatever is causing that belt to squeak. Right now I cannot get it to stay starting long enough to mark the variator. Whatever is causing that belt to squeak like that is like a vampire sucking the power right out of the engine causing it to stall out. That is exactly the same noise it made when it stopped working and I managed to get the engine to start, and every time after that I was able to get it to start since saturday it has made the same squeaking noise and wouldnt move an inch, it would kind of move forward a half an inch but then just settle back, feeling like it wanted to engage but would not.

Ok, so it could be one of two things, the variator is stuck open and not engaging the belt, or the pully on the clutch is not closing. I like videos, they explain alot more than reading it...lol...im hopelessly visual in learning.