This is really my first gas engine so I'm learning. The last time I tried to work this, it took me a while but I eventually got the engine to run. Idle was smooth and transition was pretty good. There was a bit of roughness with transition right out of the gate so I killed the engine and made a slight adjustment to the high-speed needle. I couldn't, to save my life, get that engine to start again. I even backed off the adjustment but was still unable to fire her up. I'm running with the Fuji spring starter so I should be getting pretty good engine startup spark from the magneto.

The exhaust is very black and very wet. The engine is farely new though I did acquire it used. I'm treating it as if it was new and running 25:1 oil with premium gasoline. I'm assuming I flooded her big time and fowled the plug. She is mounted inverted so I'm assuming I could not refire because of the fowled plug. Unfortunately, because of the the way I installed the exhaust deflector, removing the cowl is not easy and I did not provide a hole for access to the plug. I will have to cut the deflector flush with the bottom of the cowl -- just haven't done it yet. My local gas engine guru also wants access to the carb while the engine is running. I don't know how that will help him because the carb adjustments face forward -- doesn't leave much safe room for a screwdriver while running.