why we don't use starting fluid on outboards

[Home Cookin']

Just found this ad on Craigslist. Nothing says it better:

25 hp mercury outboard. 1989 motor and model serial number is 0A9771xx.
Outboard has great lower unit, rebuilt carberator, and other new parts.
The motor ran fine last summer; but, would not start one day. I took it into a shop who used carb cleaner to get it running and it ran on the carb cleaner until head locked up.


ALso I suggest not visiting that shop!

 

[beagleboy]

Re: why we don't use starting fluid on outboards

Next thing they should come up with is Quick Start ether already mixed 50:1. LOL But all joking aside I see at Depot and Lowes they have 1 litre containers of mixed gas for the average home owner for the grass trimmer etc. There trying to make everything idiot proof.

 

[5150abf]

Re: why we don't use starting fluid on outboards

Idiot proof ,never happen, idots are idiots , that is what they do.

I wonder what kind of shop it was that they didn't know you can't do that, duh.

 

[Rudy Brown]

Re: why we don't use starting fluid on outboards

Idiot proof?? as soon as somebody does that, along comes a better idiot.

 

[davidonmars]

Re: why we don't use starting fluid on outboards

if im starting up a 2 stroke dirtbike and it wont go i usually just put some mixed gas in a water bottle with a hole in it and spray that in the carb.. Works for me never seized a motor like that

 

[beagleboy]

Re: why we don't use starting fluid on outboards

if im starting up a 2 stroke dirtbike and it wont go i usually just put some mixed gas in a water bottle with a hole in it and spray that in the carb..esel Works for me never seized a ms nototor like that

2 stroke 4 stroke or diesel ether is not good. Like previous poster says use a squirt bottle (old dish soap bottle).

 

[HT32BSX115]

Re: why we don't use starting fluid on outboards

I took it into a shop who used carb cleaner to get it running and it ran on the carb cleaner until head locked up.

The engine didn't start on the "carb cleaner", it started on the propane propellant (in the carb cleaner)