We weren’t spared here on the central east coast. Nearly a foot of what started as snow. Then it kept packing itself, with weight and settling. Then light ice and heavy snow later. It fell from early this am, from ~5 am until this late afternoon EST.
Hope all are ok, and that power sustains through this evening.
I have a couple of tips, regarding a fuel driven snowblower. Which worked for me finally with my snowblower…… finally!
I’ve had a snow blower since circa 2011. A nice one. Bought it new. Key recommendation…… run good fuel, run it dry after each use….. and don’t allow fuel to sit in it! (No matter what others might suggest.) Surely not the alcohol based fuels on the east coast. And from my experience, some of the fuel stabilizers didn’t help. So plan B…….. (read on if still interested).
I wasn’t able to get it started back about 6 or 8 years ago, circa 2017 from new actually. So I tore the carburetor down. Cleaned it fully. Took the entire linkages apart and fuel inlets apart and renewed them. New fuel hose. And installed a fuel tolerant 1/4 turn shut off in line from the tank to the carburetor. (Did that in about 2-1-1/2” of inlet fuel hose…… it is not easy but can be done.) Just enough room to twist it the needed 1/4 turn to on or off with a pair of needle nose ora screwdriver.
And….. the key recommendation…. I only use pure fuel. There is a gray colored one for 4-cycle engines as is this one. I pulled the snowblower out this morning. Turned the shutoff to open (the fuel was long dry…….evalorated and gone). Filled it about 1/3 tank. And it fired on the second pull.
Plowed the entire driveway. The heavy snow was so thick, could only auger about 1/3 width at full power. Did it in about 40 minutes. Thankfully. Then laced it in the garage with an oil filled heater to melt the remaining snow and ice to dry. Heat gun carefully to finish. I hope these thoughts might help someone else too.
I hope all weather this well. And best to all… MOO
