good spark. Starter turns the engine fine, and fuel is pumping to the car=
b.
It doesn't act like it wants to kick over, and when I pull plugs after
trying they are bone dry. No gas seems to be getting to them. Any ideas?
<
The carb float is probably stuck shut. At the worst case the carb may be=
totally gummed. That can happen if the gas in the tank is old. But sinc=
e
it was running last fall it should not be too bad. I'd try to get the
engine running but dumping a small amount of gas into the carb while you
are cranking it over. It should start up and run for a minute and often
times I've found that the shaking of the engine will often break the floa=
t
loose. If after a couple of tries like that it still won't keep running=
,
then you will need to at least partially disassemble the carb to get the
fuel to flow. Try pulling the float bowl cover off and see why the float =
is
stuck. Free it up, reassemble and fire up the engine. Check for fuel
leaks if the gasket was torn at all during partial disassembly. If it wa=
s
gummed up at all, pour a full bottle of STP fuel injector/carb cleaner in=
to
the gas tank and let it run. I've had great success with the STP
carb/fuel injector cleaners in the white bottles. The stuff really works=
=2E =
It might save you a complete carb rebuild. =
Good Luck,
Dave
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