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[jefrs]

As others have said Easy-Start might get you to work but it doesn't cure the problem.

We always used to opine that an engine that habitually needed Easy-Start got addicted to it.

A few months ago we recently got the won't-go Hayabusa actually started and running like new by spraying carb-cleaner into one inlet at a time.

[Bullet Whisperer]

It is a myth that engines can become 'addicted' to Easy Start. What is actually the case is an engine probably isn't in the best of health if it needs it for starting in the first place [unless it is a diesel Caterpillar from the not too distant past] and because the engine's condition is already in decline, starting becomes more and more difficult as time goes by. Easy start just means you can keep a tired engine starting and therefore running, for extended periods before rebuilding or replacing becomes the only option for it eventually. Regards, Paul.

[Beezabryan]

Paul BW has made the definitive statement re EasyStart, while others perpetuate the myth
Any engine needing ether is in need of serious attention, the exception that proves the rule is provided by Norm. QED.

[PeteF]

How can a mechanical device get addicted to anything?
Not up to your usual standard of scientific theory Jefrs.

BW is right of course. If you use easystart it gets you round a problem that should be fixed.
The only time I used the stuff was years ago during one very cold winter on a diesel engine ('80/'81?). This was back in the days when DERV used to wax if it got cold enough. Easystart and a fan heater on the fuel tank got me going a couple of times but the engine sounded like a bag of hammers. An old bloke I knew ran diesel trucks in the fifties - he used to hold a burning rolled up newspaper at the air intake!

[papasmurf]

I wonder how difficult it would be to modify an Enfield to this method of starting?

[Beezabryan]

"An old bloke I knew ran diesel trucks in the fifties - he used to hold a burning rolled up newspaper at the air intake!"
used in the 60s too to fire up loading shovels & the like on cold mornings, chucked a lot of black smoke until all cylinders firing & warm.

[jefrs]

Peter because logically Easy-Start is masking a problem that is getting worse, rather than fixing it, so it needs more & more of the stuff as its ailment progresses: addicted. And you worked that out by yourself, well done.

[Beezabryan]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/addiction

[Beezabryan]

I have looked and looked but can find no reference to addiction in mechanical devices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction

[Dennis C]

Papasmurf, That video is bloody brilliant, thanks