Yes, it started a 35hp not even a month ago just fine and is starting to another one now.  The only thing that makes me now think the rod caps are over torqued is the fact that the motor was spinning over just fine before I let it sit for a couple months.  I removed the lower last night and there was still no difference.  I had a thought though that maybe I didn’t run it long enough for all my engine assembly lube to burned off or something and when I let it sit it got hardened like grease.  Not too hard to where you can’t spin the engine but just enough to make a difference.  I mixed up some sae30 oil because I was out of atf and thinned it with acetone and I poured it down into the block to see if that would make my engine assembly lube become lubricant again.  I haven’t heard of this happening before with the engine assembly lube I use but I thought it would be worth a try.  I used Permatex ultra slick engine assembly lube, I always have, I lube it, I have never heard of it getting hard though.  I also checked the battery voltage it was around 12.90v (at the battery).

My battery was starting other motors just fine, it’s from 9/24 so pretty new.  I removed the lower last night and tried it still no change.  But before I called it a day, I had a thought.  When you go through an engine and use engine assembly lube (as you should) and you let it sit I have heard and seen times where the lube/grease they used will harden and make the engine hard to turn or not turn at all.  I am out of aft at the moment, so I mixed up some sae30, acetone, and some penetrating oil and I poured it down the carb right into the block.  and I have let it sit to try and turn the engine assembly lube I used back into lube if that was the case.  I haven’t heard of that happening to the lube I use but it is worth a try, I use Permatex ultra slick engine assembly lube.  I thought I ran it long enough to break it down/run it through and replace it with 2 stoke mix but I might not have.

I just went out to see if that fixed it and it works perfect, I have tried it 5 or so times now and turns over better than ever!

I removed the lower last night and there was no difference.  I had a thought though, I have heard/seen engine assembly lube/grease if you let it sit the motor will become hard to turn or not turn at all.  I mixed some sae30, and acetone because I was out of atf and poured it down the carburetor into the engine block, to try and turn the lube back into lube if it had hardened.  I thought I ran it long enough to burn/run it all out and replaced with 2 stoke but maybe not.  I let it sit till this afternoon when I tried it again and it work great.  Spins fine (with both spark plugs in) I put some gas in the carb bowl and in the cylinder and it started right up and ran nice and smooth, besides smoking from the left-over acetone and sae30 mix.

I don’t know if anyone else has been having this issue or not, but this is the 3rd or 4th time, I have posted this reply in the last ~24hrs, I am not seeing it on my end.  Is it actually posting and I am not seeing it or is it not actually getting sent out?  I have waited until it says it has been posted and will leave the computer on for a minute or 2 after it says it has been posted then I turn off the computer.  But I still don’t see it.