ORIGINAL: racerman27410
ORIGINAL: ghoffman
Yep, Hobby Services sucks. The last time I had an engine start in reverse was a 72 Yamaha. This is 2011, there is no excuse for that and it is very dangerous.
not dangerous IMO.... if you open the throttle it will cut off..... then restart with the throttle cracked open a bit no worries.
The few early times mine was started (and actually ran well), the throttle was about 1/8 open. Flipping pretty hard still resulted in backwards starts. The engine was the first one I have owned that did that (I've owned 10 gas engines in the past 15 years and currently have 5 that I use regularly) None of my other engines ever started backwards. Very strange to me!
I tend to agree...not really a dangerous situation. Simply stopped and flipped again until it started right.