I'm going to check the choke tomorrow, and if it is ok, I'll take it some place to take the boot off the spark plug, I don't want to pull any harder then I have been doing and make things worse. Something that does puzzle me though, before this blunder, I had the hardest time getting it to start, sometimes I would have to walk away for a while, and then try again then usually it would start, but now it starts in about 2 or 3 seconds on the first try, never did it like that in the 14 years I have had it. PS it smells really rich when it's running now too.