It has become my practice to shut down gas generators by shutting off the fuel valve at the tank and letting them run out of fuel at the carburetor, THEN opening the drain screw in the bottom of the carb to drip out the little bit of gas that remains, close that screw and the carb is dry for storage.
So far, it's saved having to remove carburetors and clean the dried varnish from long dead gas. Start up requires opening the tank valve and wait a bit for the carb to fill. a bit of choke, couple pulls on the rope.. and if the gas isn't more than 6 months old.. a start. I have found the new gas with the EPA ethanol blend is horrible to store.. It absorbs water, the ethanol evaporates, and it turns to sludge much more quickly. If your generator will be setting for any time, drain the tank. On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > On April 25, 2017 at 8:49 AM tyee165 via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > > > > > But if the thing won't run when you need it, you have lost 100%. > > I just did my annual "dump a a little gas into the generator and run it > for 20 minutes because you never used it last winter". Took an inordinate > number of pulls to get it to fire (probably didn't have enough gas in it to > reliably fill the carb) but ran just fine after I dumped more gas in and > got it started. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
