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Post by genesis273 on Jan 23, 2022 14:20:28 GMT -5
I bought a cub cadet snowblower last year. It ran perfectly. I had a few minutes this morning and thought I'd fire it up just to let it run. I couldn't get it to start. It has the electric option which I did not attempt.
It would fire up after just a couple pulls last year so I assumed it'd be that easy again. After several tries I gave up because I didn't have the time to keep messing with it.
Just hateful after sitting over the summer or a more problematic issue?
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Post by featherduster on Jan 23, 2022 14:31:43 GMT -5
Did you drain the gas and run it dry last year before you put it away for the season?
If you just refilled it maybe the fuel didn't have time to get to the carb.
If it has electric start use it, you will never pull the rope start again.
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Post by tine-n-spur on Jan 23, 2022 14:47:14 GMT -5
When I’ve had a situation like that, my go to has always been a starter fluid. Just spray into the air intake.l
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Post by genesis273 on Jan 23, 2022 14:48:52 GMT -5
Did you drain the gas and run it dry last year before you put it away for the season? If you just refilled it maybe the fuel didn't have time to get to the carb. If it has electric start use it, you will never pull the rope start again. 🤦♂️No I did not. Maybe I gummed up the carb? |
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Post by deadeer on Jan 23, 2022 15:13:46 GMT -5
Did you drain the gas and run it dry last year before you put it away for the season? If you just refilled it maybe the fuel didn't have time to get to the carb. If it has electric start use it, you will never pull the rope start again. 🤦♂️No I did not. Maybe I gummed up the carb? If you arent using NON-ethanol gas, you need to start. They sell it at some stations, just gotta check around. It wont gum up fuel systems in small engines that ait around a lot. You could try mechanic in the bottle, or sea foam. But likely the jet is plugged up in the carb and since it's not flowing, will be hard for anything to work. Use that electric start as said, use the primer bulb with the choke on, and hopefully it will pull gas thru. |
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Post by featherduster on Jan 23, 2022 16:01:32 GMT -5
Some B P gas stations sell what they call recreational fuel which is non-ethanol, use it for small engines.
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Post by duff on Jan 23, 2022 17:02:51 GMT -5
Check fuel shut off and the run switch...speaking from experience..
Get starting fluid and baby it to keep running if it will.
I would use the electric starter too out of laziness.
Maybe drain the fuel and fill with fresh. Or a fuel additive to condition the fuel.
Maybe a gummed carb or plugged fuel filter.
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Post by genesis273 on Jan 23, 2022 17:44:38 GMT -5
The tank was just about empty before I put it away last year. I filled it with fresh fuel today. I'll mess with it more the next day or two.
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Post by esshup on Jan 23, 2022 20:50:22 GMT -5
Always either drain all the fuel out and run it to it sputters, put the choke on and keep it running until it runs out of fuel, or the last tank fill it full of non-ethanol fuel with stabilizer run the motor until you know it's been run enough to get the good fuel to the carb, then shut it off, topping off the tank.
Leaving a part tank of fuel will only make the problem worse when you try to go and start it next Fall.
YES, drain the fuel out of the tank, even try to clean the tank out before refilling with non-E fuel. I only run non-e fuel in my gas motors.
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Post by genesis273 on Jan 23, 2022 20:57:59 GMT -5
I'll definitely remember this after this season.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 23, 2022 21:18:01 GMT -5
My guess is the carb. I try to start my generator once every month or so and let it run for a while. I put sta-bil in the fuel.
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Post by firstwd on Jan 23, 2022 22:31:45 GMT -5
I ran into this last year. I had a troybuilt snowblower that sat a few years doing this same thing. Turns out there was a plastic nondescript key I had forgot about. I found it in a workbench drawer and the thing fired right up once I used it.
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Post by stevein on Jan 24, 2022 1:37:10 GMT -5
I fired mine up before last season in October. Fired right up so I topped the tank off after running the carb dry. When I needed it nothing. Damn mice had got in and made a nest around the flywheel chewing through some of the wireing.
My lawn vac refused to start in the fall. It would fire and run for a few seconds by priming the carb. I drained the tank and put in fresh gas. It fired right up.
The Co-Op in Industrial park has I think 90 oct Ethonal free gas. 24-7 but you need to use a card in the pump.
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Post by genesis273 on Jan 24, 2022 20:50:54 GMT -5
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Post by greghopper on Jan 24, 2022 21:41:02 GMT -5
Put the entire bottle in ?
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Post by genesis273 on Jan 24, 2022 22:34:28 GMT -5
Little under half a bottle
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Post by steiny on Jan 25, 2022 9:25:31 GMT -5
Dump the old fuel, put new fuel in, give it a shot of starter fluid and use the electric start feature.
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