Seafoam Test....
I have a little 98cc Toro snowblower that likes to gum up all the time even with Stabil and running her empty. In the past all I've ever done was remove the nut under the float bowl, clean out the ho...
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cm11599ps wrote:
I know nothing about engines so everything I now know has been through tons of youtube videos and chat board threads in the past few days. My research leads me to believe that I need to remove the float on the carb, clean the needle and hit the tiny carb holes with carb cleaner and compressed air. Seafoam has also been a common suggestion so I finally got the liquid form and the aerosol form.
On the camping related side, our 2 Honda 2000 genny's have been suffering from the same condition with not running except when choked. In the next few weeks I'll look at cleaning out those carbs and adding some Seafoam to them too.
I've owned 2 Honda EU2000i gensets and when I bought each one of them used both surged and wouldn't run properly without some choke. Seafoam liquid in the fuel tank and Seafoam spray misted directly into the carb did help considerably but it's still not the magic panacea that will necessarily make all these problems go away completely. Aside from pulling the carb and manually cleaning it yourself you may want to consider having it cleaned with an ultrasonic cleaner, a process which is much more likely to get your Hondas smoothly purring again. And once you've achieved that goal start using non-ethanol gas that won't gum up the carb as will "the awful stuff". :W That may be easier said than done due to availability in your local area ... here in Canada it's easy as premium grade gas sold at our local Esso & Shell gas stations contains no ethanol. :B
