[s-cars] Oh great guru...

[James Murray]

Bob, I had a similar issue on my old lawn mower this past summer... I too thought it was gas related, so I took the whole carb apart and cleaned it, in the process I saw a crack in the coil housing, which was causing the spark to jump... A bit of epoxy and it's running like new again. Just saying, that it might not be gas related. 

If his lawn mower is a two stroke, then it's very likely the gas has evaporated and left gunky oil which is hard to pass, it needs to be cleaned out. If takes straight gas then Seafoam is a good start, they also make a carb cleaner. 

/Jamu.

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From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Robert Myers
Sent: October-17-11 4:17 PM
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Subject: [s-cars] Oh great guru...

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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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