"Speedy Jim" wrote in message
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Glia wrote:
On Nov 3, 10:44 am, ransley wrote:

On Nov 3, 10:30 am, Glia wrote:




Can be caused by "hydraulic lock" if raw fuel is getting into the
cylinder (aka flooding) during periods of shutdown.

Jim

If it is "hydraulic lock" it should clear after taking out spark plug,
turning over a few times, and reinstalling spark plug. Have you tried this?
I'll assume its still hard to turn over once sparkplug has gone back in.

Have you tried removing the electrical load? That should make it turn over
easier, perhaps even easy enough so you could live with a bad decompression
valve (if that's what the problem is).

Dan