Oh great guru...

[Mark Rosenkrantz]

Carb cleaner, but there could be a bad fuel line (especially if ethanol gas
was used), bulb, primer, filter, etc.  Spark, fuel, and air.

Drain the fuel, check the lines, clean the carb with spray, refill and
should be good-to-go!

Mark Rosenkrantz

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com> wrote:

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> Hi Y'all,
>
> It looks like my neighbor thinks I know something about engines.  One thing
> I don't know (among oh so many) is how to solve his problem.   He has a
> nearly new condition but long stored self propelled lawn mower which will
> briefly fire up when he yanks on the starter cord but then it dies almost
> immediately.  My suggestion to him was to put some Sta-Bil in the fuel tank
> back when he more stored the machine a while back.  Somehow that didn't help
> him a whole lot this week.  ;-)
>
> I suspect that the carburetor is fouled with varnish from old fuel.  What
> might I suggest to him as a product which might dissolve such deposits and
> allow him to get his machine running again?  Carb cleaner maybe?
>
> Bob
>
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