2 stroke starting fluid with oil?

[Fleetwin]

Re: 2 stroke starting fluid with oil?

The "new and Improved" WD 40 doesn't burn. It also no longer has any lubricating agents. It's strictly for unsticking things and as a water dispersant.

 

[Home Cookin']

Re: 2 stroke starting fluid with oil?

Please enlighten us.

It takes oxygen, fuel, and a source of ignition to start an internal combustion engine. The only one not maintenance related is oxygen

A running outboard is not merely rock/paper/scissors from key to prop.

Maybe all it takes is those three things to start and run, but there are another hundred things that can keep it from starting or running. And there are dozens of parts to get those three things in one place at the right time. There's a whole lot more going on than spark, fuel/oxygen and compression (you forgot compression).

Sometimes things break or just don't work. Often when that happens, you have to work around them. if you have to do the same work-around for the same problem every trip, you are usually better off fixing it. But overall, you are better off knownig how to work around or temporarily repair a problem than smugly relying on your perfect maintenance yeilding zero problems.

Even if I never made mistakes I'd still buy pencils with erasers.

 

[SumDumGuy]

Re: 2 stroke starting fluid with oil?

The problem list is all avoidable via preventive maintenance.

Just for giggles, tell me when was the last time you got a bad batch of fuel?

 

[JimS123]

Re: 2 stroke starting fluid with oil?

Batteries go bad. You cannot prevent this unless you are in the habbit of replacing still working batteries.
Bad batches of fuel aren't uncommon and there is no way to avoid them. This is why we have fuel filters, but they don't catch everything.
Bearings in starters and alternators can and will give out at any time, without warning.
New plugs can be fouled.
Etc, etc, etc, etc.......................

I bring starting fluid for the same reason I wear a life jacket: I don't know what's going to happen and neither does anybody else. It's not uncommon for a brand new part to fail, something the best mechanic in the world cannot avoid.

With a simple voltage meter I bought from Harbor Freaight for $3 I can tell within months when my battery will fail, thus I have NEVER had one do so since I bought the meter. Bad gas is a thing of the past....current EPA regs are hard on stations, thus the tanks and equipment must pass muster. Fuel filters DO catch everything...that's why they plug up and you need a tow - because they weren't changed per the PM schedule. The bearings tell you far in advance before they go (except for my Dad who's hearing is bad). Fouled new plugs only happen when the other PMs aren't done.

I have been towed exactly once - the brand new main engine (new boat) and the brand new kicker BOTH had catastrophic warranty related failures ON THE SAME DAY.