All good tips - thank you very much! The plug looked pretty dry when I pulled it (if I recall correctly). It rev'd pretty high when it did start (no excess smoke) but with some of the covers off I lost track of where the STOP/RUN/WARM/COLD lever was. This is an impressive forum!
I have a Stihl 026 (1989) which gets used quite infrequently. After sitting for a few months the compression is unbelievably high. So much so that I can barely get one revolution out of it pulling as hard as I can. With sparkplug out it spins as easy as you'd imagine. Put the plug back in and it...
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