This might sound obvious,but were you flipping the prop the right way? I know a guy who was trying to start my....I mean HIS first engine,he spent 2 hours until he couldnt feel his arm anymore after draining his glow starter numerous times before he relized he was flipping it the wrong way the whole time and couldnt get more then a pop out of it.....idiot,lol.

And make sure your glow starter is charged by simply taking a glow plug and sticking it in the starter by hand and seeing if it glows good. And I'd try starting it with a tad less throttle than 1/4. Also,if its flooded you will usually know because the motor wont want to turn over because it'll be trying to compress all the fuel(and liquid dont compress). To de-flood your engine,just take out the glow plug and dump out the fuel and flip it a bunch of times to pump out the excess fuel,then start your starting process over. And yes....you'll want an electric starter as soon as your can afford it.

And many,if not most engines run normally at 2.5 turns out. The last engine I broke it at WOT was 5 turns out. So,I doubt you'll want to run it WO there.....make sure your richen it up alot so that it is barely running at WOT. It might start there,but richen the crap out of it before you hit WOT. I just broke in a 4 stroke at WOT and I simply opened the needle valve 5 turns,left the throttle wide open and then started the engine an left if run just like that. I was surprised it started like that.




You'll get it!