Cessna 172K Hawk XP startup procedure?

Tommi Raitio wrote:

starting the Continental IO-360-K engine

The TCM fuel injected engines are sweet, pleasant, docile
and simple to start, as opposed to the Lycoming fuel injection
which is simple cold but can be a miserable fire-prone bitch
to hot start.

The TCM fuel injection is simple:

cold: mixture rich, throttle 1/3, primer pump 8 seconds. Yes,
fuel will run out the bottom. No biggie. Then, prime as you
crank. Try not to hydraulic lock the cylinders with 100LL.
You can bend a con rod that way, believe it or not.

hot: mixture rich, throttle 1/2, primer pump as you crank.

No futzing with the mixture as you would with a Lycoming - it
stays full rich for every start.

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