I bought a nice low hour Subaru/Robin generator on CL last year.
It started right up for the original owner, but ran lean unless you left the
choke partly on.
Probably spent too much time sitting in his garage between power failures.
Shut off the fuel, took it home, it ran for a few seconds
-Curt
From: Curley McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Cc: Curley McLain <126die...@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Stupid human trick du jour
Hehe!
Hehe! I think we've all done that or something similar!
My Airens came with fuel shutoff. That makes it easy to run the carb
dry before putting it away for the summer.
NO problems with E10 fuel. Probably getting to be about 15 years now.
It still looks like (near) new and runs like new.
Hauled the snowblower out today, its got a 110v starter so standard practice is
to just crank until it starts, except today it didn't...Farted around with the
shroud over the carb, no gas coming from the carb drain. Hmm, no gas out of the
primer either. FINALLY after much farting around I
