Hi gang.
Here's a tip to help you avoid a problem.
My brother in law dumped the old gasoline out of his pressurewasher this spring, and since then its ran very bad.
To start with, theres a rubber tube from the air cleaner to the valve cover for blowby. When he flipped it upside down, that rubber tube provided a path for oil to flood the air cleaner sponge, so it was smoking a lot frim injesting too much oil.
But apparently ( judging from the two bent long rod threaded studs that hold on the carburator ) the carburator was bumped hard enough to bend those studs and Crack the seals of the gaskets between the carb and the engine. There's 2 of them, one on each side of the high temperature plastic thermal insulating spacer between the carb and hot metal intake port of the engine. Once damaged those gaskets let air in and it becomes hard to start, and runs lean and hot, and in general not very well.
The carb itself required cleaning, but that did not solve the problem.
Fortunately there was a new carb with gaskets for only ten bucks on amazon.
I cleaned off the old gasket pieces well, put on new gaskets and carb, changed the oil with Mobil 15W - 50 and, now the engine runs well, but the pump pressure relief still causes it to die sometimes when you relieve the trigger on the spray wand We messed with that some, but don't have it fixed yet.
It might handle the transition fom spraying to not spraying when the spray trigger is released, with some carb fine tuning. But for now it looks like the pressure reliefe is watts causing it to sometimes die when the trigger is released.
Anyhow, just a heads up. Don't bump the carburator area on small outdoor equiptment, and save yourself the agitation of damaged carb gaskets.
Here's a tip to help you avoid a problem.
My brother in law dumped the old gasoline out of his pressurewasher this spring, and since then its ran very bad.
To start with, theres a rubber tube from the air cleaner to the valve cover for blowby. When he flipped it upside down, that rubber tube provided a path for oil to flood the air cleaner sponge, so it was smoking a lot frim injesting too much oil.
But apparently ( judging from the two bent long rod threaded studs that hold on the carburator ) the carburator was bumped hard enough to bend those studs and Crack the seals of the gaskets between the carb and the engine. There's 2 of them, one on each side of the high temperature plastic thermal insulating spacer between the carb and hot metal intake port of the engine. Once damaged those gaskets let air in and it becomes hard to start, and runs lean and hot, and in general not very well.
The carb itself required cleaning, but that did not solve the problem.
Fortunately there was a new carb with gaskets for only ten bucks on amazon.
I cleaned off the old gasket pieces well, put on new gaskets and carb, changed the oil with Mobil 15W - 50 and, now the engine runs well, but the pump pressure relief still causes it to die sometimes when you relieve the trigger on the spray wand We messed with that some, but don't have it fixed yet.
It might handle the transition fom spraying to not spraying when the spray trigger is released, with some carb fine tuning. But for now it looks like the pressure reliefe is watts causing it to sometimes die when the trigger is released.
Anyhow, just a heads up. Don't bump the carburator area on small outdoor equiptment, and save yourself the agitation of damaged carb gaskets.
