John’s engine and mine were assembled with lots of petroleum jelly by the same mechanic. I wander if the vaseline is washing off the parts by the gas and causing the problem?
Bulent

On 2/28/04 11:19 AM, "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net> wrote:

(must irritate the Lycoming owners)
One word - "annual"  just miss out the "nu" in some cases.

Ha!  Some of these guys stay in annual forever.  My joke is that "annual" doesn't mean it's supposed to take a year :-)

As for your starting problem.  Since you do have a goo problem, I'm wondering if it might take a little starting fluid to help burn off the oil.  Maybe start with new plugs, spray a little fluid, and run it.  If it quits, stop cranking so you don't fill the plugs up with goo again, and shoot a little more fluid.  If shouldn't take too many cycles of that to burn off any excess oil, then you can put new plugs in, and run normally (with any luck).  

Good luck.

Rusty (going on 4 months of silence)