inlinesicks
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I had the exact same issue with mine. If I shut it off and immediately tried to start it again it would start fine but if I left it for a few minutes it had a really hard time starting and once it did start it would blow a puff of black smoke out the tailpipe. It turned out to be the float level was set way too high from the factory. Check out my old thread, I put up some instructions on how to adjust the float.