3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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MrWizard wrote:
try the carb cleaner and some 'sea foam' in the gas tank
always run the carb dry, and if your going to store it with fuel in the tank use 'sea foam' or some 'stabil' in the gas
Running the carb dry was what I always tried to do for the first five years. I would keep it running until it ran out of gas and then restart it and jiggle the choke and throttle until I completely ran it dry. Yet every year I would have to take the carb apart on my snowblower and clean it to get it to run without pulsing.
And now for the last 25 years I just leave gas in the tank and put Stabil in it. And I run the engine and leave Stabilized gas in the carb. At the beginning of the next season the motor starts and runs just fine.
My theory on why this works is because running the carb dry never really runs the carb completely dry. And the gas that is left will eventually evaporate and leave residue. If the tank is left with stabilized gas in it the carb stays wet and doesn't leave any residue.
I know it flies in the face of what we have been told by the experts but it seems to work with my lawnmowers, snowblower and boat.
JerryK
