yes the very first start, with hopefully no more that 2 or 3 revoulutions before it fires. And you only shut it down if you absolutely have to.Did you use the cam lube, the thick grease looking stuff? You never mentioned that. You said you ran the battery down 3 or 4 times in about 10 tries. All that cranking is what would worry me the most. You can have the best oil in the world all primed up as much as you want and will do the cam no good it only gets oil from the oil thrown from the crank and whatever else gets splashed around, there are no oil passages to the cam lobes.
