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If your battery is bad, you will get one glow & about ten seconds of cranking before it dies & needs a recharge. The fact that it runs so rough when it starts cold suggests the problem may not be the battery. How much blow by does it have?
My thoughts are you have stuck rings on at least one cylinder. A compression test will show what is going on.
I suggested stuck rings 24 posts ago. Having seen this chain of events so many times.
Bad starting when cold
GP's good
Valves adjusted
Starts ok when warm
This is a text book case of low compression from stuck rings. If not, I want to know what is causing it !!
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