Generator / Carb Part description or number?

That's the one, thanks!

mrxlh wrote:
You are referring to the anti-backfire solenoid. Just remove it and cut the needle off with a pair of dikes, the solenoid is around $70.

It is actually called a fuel shutoff solenoid and I believe this is what you are looking for: EBAY

You are referring to the anti-backfire solenoid. Just remove it and cut the needle off with a pair of dikes, the solenoid is around $70.

I don't know the official name but I believe it is a fuel cut off so the engine doesn't run on "diesel" or suck fuel in the engine while it's still turning over while shutting down. I assume it's 12 volt so to check it you should be able to touch the housing to the negative pole of a battery and the wire to the positive and see if it energizes (sucks in).

That's actually what I did in troubleshooting, everything else works fine, it's just that it's not getting fuel through the bottom. Since it's an electric activated plunger I wanted to replace it in case it's electrical in nature, it's really clean at this point because it sat in Seafoam for almost 2 weeks.

What I did was soaked my old carb in a coffee can filled with seafoam after taking it apart. 3 days later I blew everything out with compressed air. 6 months later my friends carb got gummed up so I gave him my spare and took his old one. My spare has been running fine for him about a year now. He is now a true believer in seafoam as I had been telling him to use it. I took my gen to Cummins because it was throwing several codes. It would start but shut right down. Replaced the carb. What it was doing ? when it started the butterfly would stick and the eng would over rev spiking voltage and it would shut down. I now have another spare but using seafoam religiously will prevent this from happening again. Sorry for the lenghly reply but just take youe old one apart and do what I did & I think it will be fine. The reason my orig was gummed up is it had sat for 4 yrs prior to me buying it. Good luck.