At 10:18 AM 10/27/97 EST, you wrote:
>Well, Ross, my guess is that the old gas has gooed and jelled and is
>clogging up the system. I am only guessing that as that is what
>happened to mine and that info came from the small engine repair person
>who charged me a lot to fix it. The carbs are not too cosmic and a good
>cleaning should fix it. Try to remember (or count) the screw adjustments
>and it should work fine. I only know this because when I did it the
>second time, I fixed it myself for a lot less money. You might have a
>gas filter in there somewhere, too. Now if only I could remember to run
>the system dry before I store it.
>
>Larry Dickstein
>bugide@juno.com
>
>"If you're stupid, you'll have to pay for it"
>
>On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 18:48:22 -0500 "RossOvercash" <jroverca@tiac.net>
>writes:
>>
>>I find that my snowblower will not start. Of course it sat all summer
>>so Ichanged the fuel, checked for spark, cleaned the plug changed the
>oil etc.
>
====REPLY====
Also check to see that the jets in the carb are clear; if you had old gas
(particularly 2-stroke) that went bad, the jet may be completely clogged
with gunk and varnish.
Had this happen with an old British Seagull outboard (remember those???).
Took me 10 years to figure this out. Naturally, I didn't have a boat or
anything I was using it on, just the motor in the shed, but it just killed
me that I couldn't make the )(*&%^%$( thing run.
I'd pull the thing out every now and then, check that it had compression,
clean fuel, and of course, a good spark (inevitably I'd get the 50,000-volt
wakeup call from the magneto), but nothing, not even a pbbbbbht. I'd end up
getting so mad at it, back to the shed it went.
Finally, this spring, I took the carburetor completely apart, looked through
the jet, and voila! no light! Sprayed thoroughly with carb cleaner,
reassembled, and it started on the second pull. BTW, would you believe that
the carb on a British Seagull looks kind of like a little, tiny SU? The
throttle cable pulls up a little piston which sits athwart the jet, and a
little needle on the bottom of the piston that moves up and down with it.
First time I took it apart it was sort of an eerie, deja-vu kind of thing:
"I've seen that before . . ."
Good luck.
Mark Moburg
MarkMoburg@mindspring.com
Seattle, Washington
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