Aloha Jce, for hard starting if your machine was sitting for along period of time and fuel was left in the machine it could of caused some problems with your carb diaphram it might be to hard to pulsate fuel try opening carb if diphram is hard you could save it with some wd-40 spray some on and if it becomes soft and plyable try it again so many things you could do so little space if you were here in hawaii i could have that machine running in no time JCE let me know the outcome ALOHA SHANE
