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tjbushey


Joined: Dec 10, 2009
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Please need help with snowblower!
Original Message   Dec 10, 2009 12:11 am
Hello, i have a Older Snowblower and i had it out today.. 1st time this Winter after a storm and it was running good but then ran out of gas... so i went to put new gas in and now it wont stay running.

any Help would be great, i really need the snowblower going as im 60 years old with a Metal Leg doing a long ass Drive way.

Thanks for looking, And hoping for some help
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Talldog


Joined: Nov 25, 2007
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Re: Please need help with snowblower!
Reply #4   Dec 23, 2009 9:21 am
I tend to agree with Borat, but I'm going to take it a little further.  Sometimes with old machines, over a period of time, you get a bunch of water/sediment build up in the bottom of the gas tank.  Normally it just sits there, but if the tank is run completely dry of fuel, all this water and gunk gets sucked into the fuel line and can either clog the fuel filter or the carb.

First thing I would try is to change the fuel filter if it has one (it might be in the gas tank itself).  If that doesn't work, I would clean the carb.  You said the blower was working ok before it ran out of fuel so most likely it's either the filter or the carb.

Before you dig into it, get some new fuel line because the old line has probably hardened and you might ruin it taking it off.

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