I'm trying to get my 250 Trailblazer started, which has a broken choke cable. It's been like this for years and I've always sprayed Carb/Choke cleaner directly into the carb. and it's fired right up. Well, now my usual can has ran empty and I can't find this brand any longer. What else can I use to get it started? Is starting fluid a bad idea? I sure don't like using it, even in an ice cold diesel engine. Can someone suggest a brand of carb cleaner that is flammable that I can use?

Thanks,
SnowDrift

 

u can hold yur hand over the intake to manually choke it, starting fluid isnt usually a good idea, yur quad can get addicted to it and will refuse to start unless u give it a shot of starting fluid.

 

A machine can not get addicted to a "drug", lol. Ether will work fine as starting fluid also. You can find it for sale in a spray can in most auto part stores.

 

lol trust me it can, it does something to the cylinder walls, repeated use will make yur quad harder to start, why do u think most people dont like to use it?

 

just buy another can of carb cleaner. i never use ether anymore too hard on small engines. carb cleaner will start your engine with no risk of damage.

 

Ok. I can learn something new. explain to me how a machine has the ability to learn to not start unless you spray starting fluid into it? Does it have a bad morning? Does it hold out for a better brand? Does it require increasing amounts to satisfy its addiction? What would change in a machine so that once it has a steady diet of starting fuild that it would want it all the time?

 

Every time you spray that into a two stoke, it cleans the cylinder walls. You're taking off the lubrication it needs. Won't hurt a couple of times, but keep doing it and you're asking for trouble.

 

exactly!!! if theres anyway that it wont start cuz u use starting fluid all the times its cuz your ring are shot cuz u pissed around with that ether. it takes all the oil off your cylinder walls lol. it will never be a good thing for your motor. dont use it!!! like others have already stated u can manually choke it buy covering the intake with your hand. all a choke does is richen it up by shutting off the air to the motor or a percentage of the air flow.

 

oh and by the way by time u spend all the money on carb cleaner eventually u will have passed up the cost of a new choke cable. lol why not jsut buy a new one?

 

Hey SnowDrift. Go to your closest truck stop or truck dealer and get a starting fluid such as Start Pilot. That's the brand name of the one we use in our equipment. It's an ether but it has a lubricating oil in it, thus it will not dry your cylinder walls and cause damage or seizure.