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Showing posts with label stale. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 3, 2025

Stale fuel causing engine failures

 In my review of videos on small engine repair (of lawn mowers) it was mentioned that common cause of engine failure was stale fuel due to winter storage.   It was mentioned that fuel should not be allowed to sit down for not more 6 weeks (60 days others say).   All of sorts of things happen to fuel:    water, some additives solidify, dirt ingested into the fuel tank.  

Such rubbish could be ingested into the intakek manifold and ultimately into the cylinders which could cause engine not to fire or stall.   

So after the long winter, or after long storage you have to spill the fuel and replace this How?

    1  By tilting the eninge?

    2  Or draining the tankk and carb?   (open the dome and bottom.

To solve the problem and go around stuck carb needle, lift the mower (the walk behind)  up.   






Black smoke after replacing turbos and injector

 It could be due to the intercooler.   Signs of defective intercooler:   black soot and oil at the underside from the leak.