Recently purchased a 00' Mercury 5hp four stroke. When the previous owner started it up for me it was perfect. When I took it out for the first time I was having trouble getting it started, what am I doing wrong? Not to familar with small four strokes.<br />I'm mainly going to be using this engine just in case of a brake down. My main engine is a 2 stroke and I also wondered if my 2 stroke does brake down if it would be troublesome for th four stroke to run on 2 stroke fuel for a short distance? I also plan on carrying a gallon of regular fuel just in case this happens but wondered what the two stroke fuel would do to a four stroke.
