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Old 03-29-2008 | 04:13 PM
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Default RE: Why does engine want to start backwards?

As others have said overpriming is the usual culpret. But also sometimes not flipping the prop hard enough can do this as well. It sometimes happens when the chicken stick slips off before it carries it through.