You can purchase what is called a gas rejuvenating product which helps bring the gasoline close to its original state.
1. add fuel refresher to your gas tank.
2. spray some carb cleaner in the carburetor to clean up the gunk.
3. spray starting fuel in the spark plug.
4. prime as you normally would.
5. start
If it starts for a few seconds, then you know you have spark.
If it starts and runs, then you know you have spark and fuel.
If it doesn't start and you smell gas, it's flooded.
Add fuel stabilizer before storing again. We use fuel stabilizer for the motorcycle and snowmobiles.
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After dealing with a similar issue on my motorcycle, my motorcycle guy said all of the older carburetor based bikes are having a problem with these ethanol gas blends if they're not ridden very regularly. The older gas treatments don't work as well with these ethanol blends, so there's a new batch of fuel additives to keep the fuel fresh and prevent gumming. Here's what he recommended:
It won't help with your present problems, but may help you in the future.
Usually, the only way to recover from this is to drain the fuel, pull the carb and clean it properly, which sometimes can mean a carb rebuild. That assumes the problem is with the fuel system. It could be the ignition system too.
Yep on the ethanol fuel additives.
Oregon Field Guide (a television show) ran a story about the problems boat owners are having with the fuel. It absorbs moisture very quickly and easily.
It has the possibility of turning into a life threatening problem on the open water.
Be happy your genny is on dry land 😉
I usually run my engines dry when I know I am not going to be using them for awhile. Of course I forgot to do that with the lawn tractor this year so I dumped some additive into it. I don't know if it will work its way through the carb or if I will have to mess with it. I figure I will overhaul it next spring. I have had it for 2 years and have never changed the oil. I did check it once 😀
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