[AJD] Hard starting

[Eric Walter]

Thanks Mark,
Even though it hasnt been run much we have put a couple tanks through it. 
there has been a hole drilled and tapped in front of the carb for the 
injection of starting fluid which we used quite a bit yesterday to no avail.

I'll be heading out in a while to tinker with it some more.

Eric
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Johnson" <mark.s.johnson at pixius.net>
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Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [AJD] Hard starting


> No more than you've been doing - have you refilled the gas tank recently? 
> It
> could just
> be that the fuel is 'aging' - gasoline is a complex mixture of 
> hydrocarbons,
> and the light
> fractions that vaporize easily, making it easy to fire up a cold engine, 
> are
> also the ones
> that will vaporize out of the fuel the quickest. I've not particularly had 
> a
> problem with
> tractors, but I end up having to dump the gas tank of my small engines
> (lawnmower,
> weedwacker, etc) every spring. The small engines won't even 'pop' on the 
> old
> gas, then
> pretty much take off on the first or second pull with fresh fuel.
>
> Try fresh gasoline, maybe add some Sta-Bil or another fuel stabilizer
> product. They
> aren't perfect, but they do help, especially for over-winter storage.
>
> Mark J
> '40 H
> Wichita, KS
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Walter" <eric at facspro.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 7:44 AM
> Subject: [AJD] Hard starting
>
>
>> Just curious whare to start!
>> Jacob has had his 43 B for a couple months-- we havent really done much
>> with it. Just putting around the farmstead, dragging branches back to the
>> fire pit. Drove it in a parade. But each time we start it, it just keeps
>> getting harder and harder to get it going. Plugs arent fouled, seems like
>> its getting good spark.
>> Probably going to have to give it a pull this morning to gat it started 
>> so
>> we can get it back into the barn.
>>
>> Thanks, Eric & Jacob
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