Listermann
Cincinnati, Ohio
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Starting fluid caused the engine to run much longer before dying. When I stuck my finger into the carb, it smelled of stale gas. How do I go about draining the gas from the line? I suppose that I will have to jack up the RV to get at the fuel filter.
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Gale Hawkins
Murray, KY
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Can you just not drive it until most of the gas is burned then fill it with fresh gas. If the engine is running then the stale gas should not be your issue. I bet the carb is dirty. If you could get it to run longer on the starting fluid and you smell gas you may have the choke on some how. Mine has a Summer/Winter setting on the breather box. If you can get it to run by squirting in some gas then you know it is the gas being stale. If you do not want to try squirting some gas into the carb then get you a carb kit and rebuild it. The fuel filter on my is near the fuel pump at the gen set. If it will run on the fresh gas in the intake I would mix 4 oz of Sea Foam to a gallon of gas and see if that would help clean or unstick things.
Best of luck and if working on it creates you any stress then get it into a service center. Starting fluid can do serious damage in my person experience with small engines and is better for starting diesels because they are designed to handle the compression rates it can create.
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Listermann
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Starting fluid made a big difference. It ran much longer before dying. I am thinking that it is just stale gas that will have to be worked out somehow. Someone told me to use fuel line/carb cleaner from Gumout.
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Listermann
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It will now run as long as I want as long as I manually hold the choke open. We are getting closer!
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Gale Hawkins
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If you have gas in the carb then you are either missing spark or oxygen. Now you have found the cause of the missing oxygen.  Congraduations.
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