Fuel Petcock Heavy

Suzuki DR350 very hard to kick start first time.?

I have a '92 suzuki DR 350, which takes about 50 kicks to start the first time of the day. After that I starts up just fine.

At first I just thought it was flooding (and it was), however...

I recently replaced the fuel petcock (which is a vaccum petcock), since the other one had went bad.

And I also completely tore down and put back together the carb. Its completely clean, in good shape, and I adjusted the float levels to exact specification.

Those 2 things made it run better, It hasn't flooded since then, however that first start of the day always takes like 50 kicks. I've tried many many different techniques, choke/nochoke heavy on the throttle, or no throttle at all, with/without the decompression lever. Kicking it a few times with full throttle, then the rest closed. I know all about using the decompression lever to find TDC. Yet all these things I've tried, I just have not been able to get it to start nicely right out of the garage. Any advice?

my thumper would start first kick...what I did was..

1. bring to TDC
2. put choke on
3.push kickstart down so motor draws in cylinder of fuel/air
4.bring to TDC
5.with choke on & no throtle give it a kick
BROOM....

hope this works for you...