Generator Question
My brother has a Honda 2000 generator. (Sorry, that all information I have at the time.) He told me today that when he starts it up it starts easily enough but will quit running as soon as he takes ...
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Wayne Dohnal wrote:
Good chance it's a gummed-up carburetor. In that situation they usually just run rough with the choke off, but I could envision it dying completely with a severe gumming-up. Sometimes running a while with Seafoam in the gas will clear it up, other times the carb has to be taken apart and cleaned. See the first sticky thread in Tech Issues for more info.
Yup. I would take the bowl off and spray carb cleaner up into the carb and inside the bowl. I would also spray carb cleaner into the air intake after I took the air filter off. Then I would put it back together and see how it works.
Bruce
