EU2000i starts, then imediately quits..
Gas cap is unscrewed. Fuel pump puts fuel into the bowl. ?Starting fluid seems to have no effect. New and clean carb. Unit had not been started in a couple years. I found a bit of old gas in th...
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Marcela wrote:
Actually starting fluid is very hard on these engines. You can crack pistons and rings. If it doesn’t fire on gasoline fumes there is no reason to use ether.
I use Carb cleaner for those reasons, much milder on the engine than Ether starting fluid.
Ether and carb cleaner actually evaporate very fast, so in reality internal engine parts should not inhale enough to cause damage unless you squirt it directly into cylinder (not recommended)..
Correctly setup gas engine really should never need a squirt of help out of a can, but in a pinch for some of these newer modern extremely lean carbs in very cold weather it beats having to tug 50 times at the pull rope.
