Originally posted by 4ontheFloor:
If it is really that hard to start warm, and your idle mixture is correct when the engine is warm, if you shut it off and immediately crank it back up, it should start instantly with no throttle applied unless you have bad compression or a really slow cranking speed.
hmmm
We have to give our 235 a couple pumps to start it when warm. Same thing as when it's cold. Two pumps of gas. Sometimes three when it's really cold (below 50!

).
Is that a problem? It seems to crank fine. I haven't checked the compression yet.