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Motronic posted:Carb is full of gunk from sitting with untreated ethanol gas would be my first suspect. Remove, disassemble the whole thing on a bench, clean everything (especially the float needle and fuel jet), put it back together and reinstall. Drain all the rest of that gas out first. This. Get a can of carb cleaner and go to town. If you’ve never hosed with small engines before, take pictures before you disassemble, or find a service manual with drawings. It’s dead simple. Also, if you don’t wanna jump right in, pull the fuel line from the tank to the carb. If it’s gooey or gunky inside, it’s corngas rot.
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Motronic posted:I would guess your carb float is screwed up or the orifice is clogged (using the primer forces enough fuel through to full the bowl, but it can't do it sufficiently fast on it's own). This. Get a can of carb cleaner, take the carb apart, and spray the poo poo out of everything. Then do the same for the lines and filter(s) all the way back to the tank. Last time I rebuilt a generator carb, it still wouldn’t run because the corngas had turned the rubber fuel line into a gluey mess, and it would only flow a tiny dribble of fuel.
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Ferremit posted:I might have done something stupid... You're going to need a blasting cabinet, friend. Please link the thread as well. 
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Dec 8, 2021 14:25
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Fuel filter(s)/screen(s) and then take the carb apart and spray everything down with carb cleaner, particularly the needle and any air passages. Ethanol does a real number on small engine carbs.
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Jun 22, 2022 18:18
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By “naked carb” you mean you had the carb blown apart and rebuilt, right? Pretty much every small engine I’ve touched in the past fifteen years has needed it due to varnish and sludge clogging all the metering jets and the fuel needle getting stuck closed.
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