Recent content by Vikas

What is the return policy by Costco on this? I bought it few weeks ago without realizing that it needs a bucket to work with! What is the technical reason it can not be connected to the water supply?

Looks like I have bowl orientation off by 180 degrees. How critical is that? I wonder if that will hamper the high speed under load operation as the bowl will not be able to drop all the way, at least theoretically. Is that correct or in practice it does not matter? How could I have missed...

Opened it again and put the gasket back. Also adjusted the orientation of the bowl to match the float pin. Verified that gas does not drip if I hold the float horizontal. But I feel very slight dampness to the bowl after 24 hours. I mean the needle/seat might be sealing only 99%? I will...

aaarggggggg; I found the bowl gasket on the floor under the machine. For some odd reason, the diameter of it small and it is floating in the bowl instead of acting as a gasket between the carb and the bowl. I can smell the gas even when it is not running and can feel the dampness around the...

RE: " I wonder if the actual passageway is smaller than the hole?" It only cost me $6.99 but yes, the passageway is tiny compared to the hole.

When I went to my appointment, they told me it will take 3 hours! I said I will wait and set up the laptop for work. About 15 minutes later, he tells me "You are all set; that was a bad battery; we replaced it" After driving half way to home, I asked via app that there was no charge and of...

Without disconnecting the HV logic connector under the seat, 12V battery is always getting charged even after "turning off power" from the screen. I could not measure the battery resting voltage as it was showing 15V.

not sure how to test that. I put the cigarette lighter voltmeter and the voltage showed 14.8 I disconnected the wall power, still showed14.8 I went into the menu and powered off, still showed 14.8 Although I do not know what that "power off" state is. Is it turn off the screen? It...

my plug in voltmeter is in the other car; once I have that I will see if I can read the resting battery voltage to see if it is indeed weak. Even if the car was not driven for 4 weeks, there should not be any appreciable drain. Especially if the car was on the wall power all the time. From...

Mine was replaced on April 29, 2024 and I got the warning today. The car has been on the charger for last 4 weeks and was not driven until today. I don't drive that car too often but the OEM battery lasted almost 6 years before giving warning. Did I get a bad battery?

You think so? How do you know? Because you see gas splashing in the tank? Do you know where is the fuel pick up is located on that particular tank? Why do you assume that the pickup point will be in the bottom of the tank? What if it is on the side and little up? These are the questions I...

Buttoned it up and started. Now it idles at lowest settings! But I feel that idle speed is quite high but I am not going to open it any more. Should I confess as to what was really wrong? Naaa, it forced me to open it up and clean the main and the pilot jet. If it had not died on me, I...

Removed the pilot jet behind the rubber cap. It has big horizontal through hole. But the small one vertical does not come out all the way to the horizontal hole. I have pushed as much as I can with right size wire. Is it supposed to?

Good news is that when sprayed the starting fluid in the throat, it fires up and runs for few seconds. That rules out all the major problems such as sheared flywheel or weak coil or no compression etc. So now it is just matter of draining the stale gas and checking the bolt main jet holes and...

4 stroke engine - Spark is there, compression is there, starting fluid is there (Somewhere!) but still no sputter but this was running engine and it quit when I had completed the snow blowing and just bringing it back to garage. It has always been garaged and already tried to restart after it...