What Next!

 Seem's like it's always something! I put the new motor on the electric wood splitter the other week, which now runs fine. What did happen though is a piece of wood while splitting a log, got between the rail and the side piece and not only bent it pretty good, but it also broke off a bolt. I tried an EZ-out but that didn't work, so I had to drill out the old bolt, drill a new hole, tapped it and used a bigger bolt. So far, so good.

Then the wood catcher for the gas log splitter came and had to mount that, that was a pretty quick job.

Then yesterday I tried firing up the snow blower, no go. We are to get 2-4 inches of snow, so I wanted to get it all ready. I tried and tried but it wouldn't start. I even went with the electric starter, and it still wouldn't start. I thought maybe I flooded it, so I took out the plug, which was dry and there was a lot of spark. My next thought is it's not getting gas.

Ended up taking off the carb which was a job in itself being I had no idea what all I had to do to remove it. Turns out, it was quite a bit.

The picture above isn't my snow blower, but it looks almost like it. The difference is in the picture it has a manual speed control, mine has an electronic speed control. The big problem came when I removed the electronic control and a plastic piece fell out and I had no idea how it went back on.

After doing some searching a found a video of a guy with the same electronic control and I seen there was a spring in there, I didn't see any spring? So I went back out and looked, and there was a spring laying on the floor. But before reassembling everything, I took the bowl off the carb, removed the float, needle valve, etc., and the jet. I blew everything out with compressed air but really didn't see a problem anywhere.

The only problem I really seen was a little white stuff on the needle valve which I cleaned off and didn't think that was the problem being there was gas in the bowl when I removed it. After getting everything back together and hoping I got everything back together correctly, I put fresh gas in it, pushed the primer three times, and pulled the rope, it started on the second pull!

I then moved the knob for the speed setting, which it has three, and the motor speeded up when going to each setting then slowing back down when I went the other way with the speed knob.

So I guess there was a little dirt in the jet maybe that stopped the gas from flowing. I did use gas stablelizer in it the past two years but I guess it didn't work as well as I thought it would. This week I'm going to add Sea Foam to the gas, which seems to get really good reviews.