My 240 does the same thing . The last cold snap we had made it useless as well. I couldnt start it tried for two days. I went through the same routine as you did excluding the pull start. I finally hooked a large battery charger to it and kept on cranking it would fire and die slowly firing more almost like the cylinders were flooded with fuel. It continued this for a 1/2 hour and then stayed running.

Now two weeks later its running as if nothing ever happened. I'm thinking these engines just load themselves with fuel if they dont start and become a real bear to get going afterwards.

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