[AT] small engines

[Cecil R Bearden]

No, this is really weird.  The tank is one of those flat plastic ones 
that is held by 4 bolts at the bottom, 2 on each end.  No cracks in the 
tank, and the valve was shut off when I went to get it, and I also had 
run the engine until it died with the fuel shut off.  Where that much 
water came from I have no idea..  This is the second time a new Briggs & 
Straton engine has failed from sitting.  The first one was on my home 
built fire tank trailer.  The first year it was OK.  Then it got rust on 
the magnets and would not run.  I spent nearly 2 days and $100 working 
on it until I sanded the flywheel magnets.  This one did not have any 
points.

    I am not that happy with that Honda that kept getting water in it 
when it rained either....  I seem to have stopped the problem with 
drilling the manifold after I removed that chrome exhaust guard that I 
always leaned on and got burned.

Cecil in OKla


On 11/15/2012 9:46 PM, Ken Knierim wrote:
> A quart seems like a lot but here in AZ we don't know much about that
> condensation stuff.
>
> Sta-bil is your friend but this sounds a fair piece different. You don't
> have grandkids "helping" you, do you? :)
>
> Ken in AZ
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>wrote:
>
>> Oil level was ok.   I can only assume that it had some form of ethanol
>> fuel in it and the vapors allowed water to condense.   Also, this new
>> fuel causes aluminum to immediately corrode.
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
>>
>>
>> On 11/15/2012 3:36 PM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
>>> Did rain come in through the muffler and somehow work its way backwards
>>> through the engine into the fuel tank? Could it have came in through the
>> air
>>> filter? For the heck of it, check the oil level.
>>>
>>> John Hall
>>>
>>>
>>>
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