duncan99210
Well-Known Member
Here’s my routine with my 2 strokes.
Start of season: top off tank with fresh fuel. Try to start before taking engine to boat. If it refuses to play, strip carb and clean everything I can. Fit new plug. Refit carb and try to start again. Usually starts. Take to boat and fit. Engine starts and works just fine.
Daily routine is to use engine, turn off fuel tap at close of play after stopping engine on button. If the engine’s going to be left unused for more than a few days, use drain screw to empty carb. Repeat until end of season.
End of season, remove engine from boat. Take home, remove prop (on small engine, no gearbox) and run engine for 10 minutes to flush waterways. Use drain screw to drain carb bowl. Put in corner of shed until spring.
The smaller of our engines is used on our boat in Greece, where it’s used daily throughout the summer. The only problems I’ve had with it were down to failing to drain the carb on winter and last spring when the fuel tap rubber washer disintegrated giving symptoms of fuel starvation: took some time and cursing before I worked that one out....
Start of season: top off tank with fresh fuel. Try to start before taking engine to boat. If it refuses to play, strip carb and clean everything I can. Fit new plug. Refit carb and try to start again. Usually starts. Take to boat and fit. Engine starts and works just fine.
Daily routine is to use engine, turn off fuel tap at close of play after stopping engine on button. If the engine’s going to be left unused for more than a few days, use drain screw to empty carb. Repeat until end of season.
End of season, remove engine from boat. Take home, remove prop (on small engine, no gearbox) and run engine for 10 minutes to flush waterways. Use drain screw to drain carb bowl. Put in corner of shed until spring.
The smaller of our engines is used on our boat in Greece, where it’s used daily throughout the summer. The only problems I’ve had with it were down to failing to drain the carb on winter and last spring when the fuel tap rubber washer disintegrated giving symptoms of fuel starvation: took some time and cursing before I worked that one out....