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Oh hell yeah!! The right combination of tensile strength, and metal composition.. They make a great bushwacker! For real fun, try a large file..

A "Shop Manual", is what you put under your beer, so that you don't get white rings on the coffee table.

But... But... But.. It was so much more fun to continue on as if he hadn't... :) Ain't that just ( . ) ( . )

"of the 5 times I started it this season it would only start 2 times on the first try. If I put my battery charger on it I can get it to start. Battery is testing at 12.8 volts and is charging close to 16 when its running." Sometimes, the devil is in the details.... So.. It only started 2...

Personally, as other posters have mentioned.... I agree! There's no such thing as too much compression!! Let's look at that from a not too technical viewpoint.... "ACR" .. AKA.. Automatic Compression Release. Well, What does that actually do? AFAIK, the compression release is there so that...

First setting is overnight cold.

I had a John Deere that was like that too. The solution? Even when hot, it wanted choke to start. WTF? I never got around to figuring out why. But, same symptom as yours. Full choke on a hot re-start, and it fired up in a heartbeat.