I have an FJ40 and FJ60. Both, fortunately, run well. The only "difficulty" I have run into is that if one or the other of them sits for several days or longer, it takes several turns of the key to get them running. Other than that, they start up and run well (in other words, if I were to start them each day, they would start right up, with the choke closed, of course and run well).
We wanted to take the FJ40 out this weekend and she had been sitting for several weeks. I have a can of starter fluid and figured I'd give her a quick squirt into the carb. She started right up, ran perfectly. The FJ60 is the same way, couple of squirts in the carb when she's been sitting for a while and she starts on the first turn of the key.
So, the question is, is this bad to do? I would never have figured it was but I have read some blogs that starter fluid should rarely, if ever, be used (and if its on the internet, then it is true, amiright!!). It just seems better to put a quick squirt in the carb and have a quick start up than have the starter go round and round until she finally fires up.
Obviously, I want to take as good of care of both of them as possible so I'd like to know if this is a practice that should be avoided.
We wanted to take the FJ40 out this weekend and she had been sitting for several weeks. I have a can of starter fluid and figured I'd give her a quick squirt into the carb. She started right up, ran perfectly. The FJ60 is the same way, couple of squirts in the carb when she's been sitting for a while and she starts on the first turn of the key.
So, the question is, is this bad to do? I would never have figured it was but I have read some blogs that starter fluid should rarely, if ever, be used (and if its on the internet, then it is true, amiright!!). It just seems better to put a quick squirt in the carb and have a quick start up than have the starter go round and round until she finally fires up.
Obviously, I want to take as good of care of both of them as possible so I'd like to know if this is a practice that should be avoided.