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After doing a search, I found two other people that had the same problem. However their remedies did not work for me. With the sparkplug removed, the pull rope works fine. As soon as I put the sparkplug back in. It is almost impossible to pull through each compression stroke. I have removed the clutch housing and needle bearing and carbureator. It still pulls hard. The rope looks like new. When I have the rope almost fully extended the last compression stroke is still hard. I have looked through the sparkplug hole. It doesn't look wet inside. What could be causing the problem. The thing that puzzles me is that it happened occasionally in the past and corrected itself.