honda 7.5 4 stroke cold start advice

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winter36 · #1 Post by **winter36** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:21 pm

hi folks, i got a little honda engine, really robust when she works, but sometimes i just cannot get her started. Any advice on cold starting, she is a manual pull, would really love to master this as times i just give up and dont go out, yet other times she starts after a few tugs.
or if anyone is near carrick, come show me how eas it can be.........lol
Anyone at all who knows anything..please

#2 Post by **Tanglerat** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:55 pm

Have you tried changing the plug on it? Failing that, emptying half a can of wd40 into it is the sum total of my knowledge......... :D

winter36 · #3 Post by **winter36** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:02 pm

THE CRAZ Thing is it has just had a full service, plugsetc all changed..
yeah the wd 40 sometimes does fix it

wish i could afford a decent 2nd hand one, but us fishin shop owners have no mone, especially with this bloody wind putting the anglers off.

#4 Post by **kieran** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:18 pm

Hi

Not my area but here's a funny one...

Release the cap for the petrol really well to allow air in easily - near exhausted myself with a 5 hp Honda, then remembered to release the cap - engine was sucking on a vacuum - no wonder it didn't start!

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