Phil - Thank you so much for the welcome and the useful information. I have been lurking on this site and a few others for a while. I found your expertise, along with Art and all the rest very helpful. Someone said the 'Big Guns' latched on to this post and they were right! I am about mid-trail at this point on this latest non-start and I am determined to figure it out. Once I do, I will humble myself and ask why I didn't 'do that first'. I was looking in the thread for an answer exactly as you had it about 'what can we can say is true' when it fires a little bit with the ether. I just got the ether last night. I circled my wagon around the fuel question already but when I hooked up my handy pressure gage on the fuel line, I lost the damm adapter piece somewhere in the engine. (I actually kept the gage on there was I was driving it so I would see the pressure at any given time. PLus it looked cool. But then the hose started to leak and I took it off. I will keep you posted about what my solution as soon as I find it. /K