06-28-2009, 05:20 PM
If you pour gas over the entire machine, it will start.
And it will burn for hours. No need for Stabil if you run it this way.
Otherwise, try to start it without the air filter and that will answer your question.
Do that on concrete, so you don't get too much stuff that doesn't belong, into
the intake.
Often, those Sears mowers that require that you flip the machine over to dump oil,
have oil coming OUT of the carb too. Also, if it is overfilled, when you pull to start,
the splash lube method throws oil out the carb, and onto your filter, making it useless.
There is NOTHING you can do to clean a new filter. I tried when that happened last year
($13 waste of $$$$) soaking overnight in gas, spraying with starting fluid, but the nice
clean oil was in those pleats and NEVER coming out.
Except when I also started it (the pleated filter) - as instructed in first paragraph. It "ran"
for about 10 minutes before I had to scrape it off the driveway!
Try upgrading to THIS....
or....
you might try THIS....
And it will burn for hours. No need for Stabil if you run it this way.
Otherwise, try to start it without the air filter and that will answer your question.
Do that on concrete, so you don't get too much stuff that doesn't belong, into
the intake.
Often, those Sears mowers that require that you flip the machine over to dump oil,
have oil coming OUT of the carb too. Also, if it is overfilled, when you pull to start,
the splash lube method throws oil out the carb, and onto your filter, making it useless.
There is NOTHING you can do to clean a new filter. I tried when that happened last year
($13 waste of $$$$) soaking overnight in gas, spraying with starting fluid, but the nice
clean oil was in those pleats and NEVER coming out.
Except when I also started it (the pleated filter) - as instructed in first paragraph. It "ran"
for about 10 minutes before I had to scrape it off the driveway!
Try upgrading to THIS....
or....
you might try THIS....
