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| Brass_Machine:
Joe & Chuck... Great idea. I will implement this when I rebuild the carb! Eugene, Wow that's nice! Eric |
| DavidA:
....Our recollections of Wales were my father setting fire to a horse in WW1 .. For someone who must be about 100 year old you don't do too bad. Dave. :bow: |
| vtsteam:
Just found that not only the carb on my snow blower, but the tank itself rusted at the fuel sump and outlet, so running out the carb before shutting down isn't even enough these days with ethanol mixed in the fuel. The tank should be emptied also. Not so easy with a generator that you just fueled during a power outage which ended shortly after fueling. That can result in a couple gallons of partly used gas to find a use for. Also, it means fueling before starting in an emergency -- not something to look forward to at night with below zero temps, or if there are spills in the process, with the enforced wait after. Steel is no longer a good tank material. Some small engine tanks are now plastic, and one lawnmower tank I have is die-cast alloy. But the snow-blower was steel, and now ruined after 3 years of light use. Not easy to replace because the tank is built-in as a unit with the carb. And the carb is worked into the plastic dash panel structurally, with a built in primer bulb and choke lever -- it's all one unit. The primer bulb itself is cracked from the ethanol. Consumer engineering is in a sad state. |
| Joules:
vtsteam, it will have to have a 2ltr pop bottle tank like all the best third world engineers use. |
| vtsteam:
Wish it were that simple Joules, I have plenty of substitute tanks. But the carb is damaged as well and is part of the dash panel, not a separate unit. Used to be everything was a separate component -- tank, carb, panel. Then you could work on or replace individual components. Hard to explain here but, for instance I can't remove the choke lever through the slot in the dash because it seems to have been plastic welded to a permanent lever on the carb. Plastic moulding and snap together locks in inaccessible places, plastic manifolds and carb parts integral with the dash, and no obvious means of removal are making this frustrating enough that I'm thinking of re-motoring altogether with a more standard "old fashioned" small motor. I have a brand new Harbor Freight 6 hp horizontal shaft Honda clone on hand. If it fits it might make more sense to just replace the whole damn thing. Unfortunately I have to work outdoors in the snow to do it. |
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