forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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Thanks everyone for your suggestions! I may add some fresh gas to the current gas in there and give her a try to see if it starts.
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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OP did you get that mule started?
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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I'd just add some Heet and start it.
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
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Decided to give it a try at starting today after I ran across a bottle of the two cycle I used last season and noticed it had a fuel stabilizer included in the homelite oil. The snow blower started...
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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i've never been bitten by the "bad gas" issue - if you're hesitant, put some stabil in the tank right now, let it sit overnight (to diffuse), then run.
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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No harm done although can take some hard pulls to start and can throw some gunk on the spark plug. I would drain or use heet/stabil if you already changed the spark plug which some do yearly like...
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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Yeah, fuel stabilizer isn't always needed. I rarely remember to bring in my fuel tank from my shed and/or drain my mower during winter. Always worked fine getting through MA winters. Don't panic....
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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I think I would just try and start it assuming it starts fill the tank up the rest of the way. Ive left gas in my mower every winter no stabilizer and it has always been fine. I just recently started...
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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I know the ethanol is worse, but non-ethanol still gets pretty funky when it's old. Ethanol free is at every station around me, at least any that I've paid attention to. I heard ethanol was harder...
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
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Try it and see if it starts. Throw a little fresh gas in there and see if that works. Then drain if none of that helps.
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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I live on, own, operate a cattle ranch. I have NEVER drained any gas from an engine when it sits for the winter. Tiller (12 years old), lawn mower (8 years old) (both replaced much older models),...
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
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Supposedly its the ethanol that creates the problem in most cases. Most people cant get ethanol free gas anymore. I used to be able to go to the local airport but they wont sell to me anymore.
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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Ahh, then you also have to dispose of it.
I left gas in the snowblower for the first time last fall, and when I tried starting it there wasn't even a cough.
Cleaned out the hole in the carb...
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
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Have you tried starting it to run it out of gas?
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Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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I would try and start it on old gas first before you do anything. You might get lucky. If you have no luck what the above suggested will work.
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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Realized we put away the snow blower last season without running down the gas or adding fuel stabilizer to the fuel. Not sure what I was thinking! In any case, should I try to drain the gas from the...
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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drain all the gas out of it and just put fresh new gas in it.
you will be okay, no reason to panic.
forgot to drain gas from snowblower
Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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Haven't tried yet. Neighbor said he has a siphon so once he digs that out of the garage I think I will try to do a quick drain of most of the gas in there first and replace with fresh. I will update...
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Thread created 12-06-2012 by dvcbwvfans
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old sock works just as good =P
