kru70, I had the same problem with mine, too much oil got on the "COBRA" and my guess is that it made the metal stick together enough that it wouldn't let it recoil back, weird how suction over powers tention, to a point, by you turning it backwards you break that suction and allow the coil to do its job( also for me, not so much for you though, when that happened I pulled to far on the cord making the COBRA tighten up all the way causing the metal to bond together via the oil. hope all that makes cents to ya.... an expeirament to my theory, take two peices of something true flat, glass, flat metal, whatever and coat it with oil, now stick it together and instead of sliding it from side to side to seperate, pull the two peices away from each other and see if you can do it? let  me know how it turns out

now on to the rest of the post,   I too would like to know the diff of spinning it foward as compaired to spinning it backwards, I'm 30 and have been tinkering with 4 strokes since my go cart at age 12, rebuilding a ford 2.3 at age 17 and 302 to replace the 2.3 at 22 and 5 vehicles later(still have four of them)yeah yeah ill move on...   I know two stroke, nitro or not, are the same principle and work just like four strokes but only two strokes(obviously)[X(] and less the moving valves, still you have a piston, conected to the crank via a conecting rod, which spins around making the rod and piston go up and down, that is all the cyl walls know about the piston is that it goes up and down.  the only diff I can tell is instead of air being pushed out the exhaust(spinning foward) that cycle is reversed and air is pushed out the carb(spinning backwards)

as for the lubrication bit, all that is true if you were "running" the engine backwards which is highly unlikly and most impossible to do, i don't know about most of you but I have hard enough time tunning it the way it is now, I doubt I would ever get it running if I mounted a carb to the exhaust side and muffler to the carb side, lol 

ok after all this, I just wanted to help make sure everybody was on the same page,

rjsdad, you are correct in what you say, however, kru70 is only talking about spinning the engine backwards only a few revolutions to make the pull start recoil the cord back in, even one pull like normal(without starting) turns the engine over at least 3 to 20 revolutions more then what he did by turning it backwards two or three turns,

neyou86, I also woulld have to say you are correct
no matter which way you turn the crank the piston goes up and down, not side to side, front to back, in or out, so Im with you, whats the differance 

firebird78, like the way you got it back on track, back to the problem at hand, the recoil issue, engenius,

in closing, im not trying to step on toes or call anybody out, merely trying to make sence of, so if I have, I apologize ahead of

[8D]peace out and happy trails[8D]</p>