I followed the directions EXACTLY as they said. I fly planes and know plenty about engines, its just this damn pull start crap. I feel like im trying to start my weed eater. I think I just got a bad pull start or something because when I first tried starting it, the compression was so tight that I couldnt even pull the thing out. It may be user error, but I doubt it. The only other thing that I can think of is that the glow plug was bad and it wasnt getting hot enogh to begin with and me pulling it countinously didnt help matters.