Hi Tyler, Yes I had given that some thought, I had also removed the hose from the decomp thinking that without vacuum it may hold open a fraxction longer but that made no difference the second the piston starts coming up on compression it shuts the valve and instantly it locks up. I was thinking of fitting one of the lower comp heads to see if that helps but that sort of defeats the power to run these big slashers. It is a decomp issue but what I don't understand why it only causes these issues on this mower/slasher combination. Real mystery
