Yesterday, I ran the battery down trying to get it started. Even tried pouring methanol down the carb. Charged the battery overnight. Installed it this morning, engine still wouldn't fire up. Removed the front rotor's plugs. They were wet with gas. So sprayed them with brake cleaner, then wd-40. Then turned the engine over with the plugs grounded. They showed spark. Put everything back together. Shot some wd-40 down the carb. Engine fired right up several times.

Question>>--> is WD-40 that good, or was I just lucky?

 

I've done similar before. Yeah wd does fire with spark. Pretty much everything does though. The brake cleaner would certainly help.

 

WD-40 is extremely flammable in addition to its other uses. Saw a backfire through a carb ignite an engine bay on fire once cause the owner had doused it in WD to clean it up and make the plastic shinny. There are some videos out there of guys spraying it in a tire and then igniting it to seat the bead on a truck tire. Fun stuff!

 

Good to know, dousing the engine bay to make the plastic nice and shiny led to a fire. I spend so much time on mechanical maintenance, I don't have the energy to worry about superficial appearance.

 

Yesterday's hard starting had wet non smelly spark plugs, could it be coolant is getting into the combustion space, and shorting out the spark plugs?

Used to be billowing white clouds happened at start up, then some coolant sealer fixed it