[AT] small engines

[charlie hill]

Cecil, the 5 hp B&S I wrote about the other day,  the one I want a different 
carb for,
does the same thing.  I've never had that much water in it but it get in the 
tank and
I don't know how.  I usually try to leave a 5 gal bucket turned up over the 
engine
and that solves the problem so I'm pretty sure it's rain water but I can't 
for the life of
me figure out how it gets in the tank.  The tank cap is domed and has only a 
vent hole
in the top about the diameter of a piece of electric fence wire.  The air 
filter cover
fits properly and should not leak.  Makes on sense to me.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil R Bearden
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:26 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] small engines

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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