Well, I'm not really looking forward to this weekend with all the snow coming our way. I'm hoping its going to be like a few years ago when they said by morning will have 10" of snow. Woke up the next morning and nothing!
So will be getting around 14.5" of snow this weekend. I did go out yesterday and made sure the snowblower fired up, it did. If you remember I had to remove the carb and clean it out, being it wouldn't start. That's pretty bad, this makes the third year of owning this snowblower and only used it once each year before this year, so that makes it that I only used it two times before.
I did have a track drive snowblower before and hated it. The track drive snowblower worked good, but the bad thing about it is if you run out of gas or have another problem where it shuts off, you can't "free wheel" it back, you have to drag it back to the house or garage.
Another thing that I'm undecided about is the gas, not only in the snowblower, but all gas-powered equipment. I only started using gas stabilizer about two years ago. Before that I never added anything to my gas and never had a problem. My one lawn tractor I had now for 26 years and never used anything in the gas until two years ago and never had a problem with it sitting. I started using stabilizer in my gas about two years ago then I have carb troubles with the snowblower... hummm.
That leads to yet another question. You'll read here and there that if you don't use your equipment for some time to add stabilizer to the gas. Even better is to drain the gas from the tank and carb, does that make sense?
If you drain out the gas, seals, etc., will dry out, crap will form on parts from oxidation, etc. It kind of makes you wonder, should I use a stabilizer or not being I never had troubles before using it. And for draining the gas tank and carb, I don't think I would ever do that.
Any thoughts?
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