Starting A Cold/Old Snowmobile

I saw this solution on Youtube and because it was simple and appeared to work, I decided to try it.

Remove the spark plug in each cylinder of a two stroke snowmobile motor. Using a turkey baster or other similar device, take a small amount of snowmobile oil and introduce it into the cylinder. Replace the spark plugs. Turn on the key, set the choke, lift the kill switch and pull. Hopefully the motor will start! It did for me in February 2016.

Now I can say that I’ve used it a few times and it works quite well.

2016 Results: Polaris – two pulls; Arctic Cat – three pulls.

2018 Results: Both machines only required a few pulls after sitting for more than a year unused.