Thanks everyone for all of your help.
The second attempt went much better.
The engine rotated much easier by turning the 18mm fly-wheel nut. A person could really have grabbed the fly-wheel by hand and turned the engine over TDC quite easily. It takes removing only four 8mm bolts on the plastic fly-wheel cover to expose that 18mm bolt.
I was easily able to rotate the piston up and over TDC both forward and backward to get maximum squish on each of the four strands of 1/8" solder.
Why does it take so much more force to turn the kickstarter lever than the flywheel ?
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