Thread: petrol water blaster's

Originally Posted by bigbear

Most petrol engines don't like sitting with petrol in the bowl, the new petrol isn't the same as it was twenty years ago. Couple service guys around town have told us to run or small engines dry

My small engines guru said that petrol nowadays can go stale in as little as 3 months.

My Honda gene has a run to empty position on its on off switch. This prevents stale fuel gumming up. Trouble is, if the system is totally empty of fuel it takes many many pulls to get it to start. With my gene which is my energency power supply, I want it to start within 3 pulls.

Guru recommended a fuel stabilizer so I use a Honda product made by Sta-Bil and so far it seems effective. Now I just shut it down without running the fuel out. I guess time will tell and one shitey night when there's a power failure.......

Originally Posted by zimmer

My small engines guru said that petrol nowadays can go stale in as little as 3 months.

My Honda gene has a run to empty position on its on off switch. This prevents stale fuel gumming up. Trouble is, if the system is totally empty of fuel it takes many many pulls to get it to start. With my gene which is my energency power supply, I want it to start within 3 pulls.

Guru recommended a fuel stabilizer so I use a Honda product made by Sta-Bil and so far it seems effective. Now I just shut it down without running the fuel out. I guess time will tell and one shitey night when there's a power failure.......

You could run the thing every month or two, drain the tank and add fresh fuel.
Run it for long enough to get new fuel right through the carb etc.

Might be easy to add a drain hose and valve near the fuel tap.

My farm water blaster has a sturdy Robin engine on it with an Italian pump. Lives outside with a plastic water trough turned upside down over it. Can go months without use, 3 or 4 pulls and its away.

Unless wifey has washed horsey stuff with it and turned the fuel off. Then its pull pull pull pull!!! Bastard! Engine start, pull pull pull! Bloody bastard! drop bottom off carb.....oh, fuel's turned off