Reading this thread it reminded me that it’s time to get the snow moving equipment out and see if they will start. I have two snow blowers, one is a Honda HS1132 track drive for my driveway and the other one is a small Toro 2 cycle for my deck.
The Toro started and ran perfectly.
The Honda started Ok but stalled out after about 2 minutes of running.
I couldn’t get it started so I went thru the regular things like checking to see if it is getting a spark, is it out of gas, etc. Everything looked Ok so I had to dig deeper. I checked to see if it was getting fuel to the carburetor and unfortunately it wasn’t….so off comes the float bowl and it didn’t have any gas in it. The float was stuck in the up position not allowing any gas to get into the bowl. I took the float valve out and it had gunk on it which made it stick in the valve seat. I have never had this happen before because I have always put stabil in the fuel that I use. Maybe I got some bad gas just before putting it away for the season. After cleaning both the carburetor and float valve the snow blower started up and ran like a charm.
I’m glad that I found this now and not during the first big snow storm that we will probably get. So I would like to thank Sunrise Point for starting this thread which reminded me to get my snow blowers ready for the winter.
Hey FLL, it didn’t cost me a penny to get my snow blowers running.