Hope this is the right spot to post my thread, made sure to read everything before i posted. Now my question, I cleaned my carb, put back on, and now it won't start on its own! It starts if I spray carb cleaner in the carb but not on its own? Any suggestions?
When you say you cleaned your carbs, what all did that entale? Some people think cleaning them is dropping the bowl and spraying carb cleaner up in there. Did you fully dissasemble the carb, cleaning all components i.e jets, orifaces, ...? Make sure you are using compressed air to blow out all orifaces too. Did you mess with your PMS screw at all? Also check your choke cable and that it is not sticking open or closed. Make sure where it goes into the carb is free of all grime and debris.
Hope this is the right spot to post my thread, made sure to read everything before i posted. Now my question, I cleaned my carb, put back on, and now it won't start on its own! It starts if I spray carb cleaner in the carb but not on its own? Any suggestions?
I poured bad gas in it, which led to the float getting stuck and leaking from the drain. I fully disassembled the carb, cleaned, blew out with compressed air, cleaned somemore, dipped and let sit in carb cleaner, cleaned somemore and blew it out. Today i drained my tank again, blew out the lines. I did mess with the PMS screw and i set it at 1 3/4. Should i adjust it to 2 turns? Im going to take it back apart tom. and go through it and check out the idea's that ya'll have given me. I think i may have mixed those to jets up. Thanks for the advice and pretty quick!
Sounds like you cleaned them right, but the re-assembly sounds like the problem. If you did mix up those jets that is your problem there. One major suggestion, put a in-line fuel filter right before the carb, so you can see it, and change it easily in the future. This will eleviate all issues with crap in the tank in the future and many more headaches. And yes your PMS screw should be around 2 turns out to start with and play for fine tuning. Do a search and check out the Jetting 101 section in these forums, alot of useful information in it.
One thing to note here is that after you clean the carb, you need to prime the system. Being that it's got a fuel pump and not just gravity fed, you need to get gas into the carb. So, what you should do is turn the machine over and while you're doing that, reach to the right side of the carb and prime it via the primer lever. You'll know when gas gets in there, as you'll feel the fuel being pumped (through the lever).
That may very well be the only thing "wrong" here....which is actually not anything wrong at all.