Damn generator

[LizStreithorst]

It had been two months since I's cranked the generator.  I should do it every month.  I tried to crank it Saturday.  Gas line open.  Choke on.  Pull, pull, pull.  Go do something else, go back and pull, pull, pull.  NOTHING!  It didn't even try.  The cover blew off it during a big blow but we didn't haven't had a lot of rain.  I'll visit my neighbor Jack.  He knows how to do everything like a pro.  Time was when he'd have come down and fix it for me but he still loves to help with advice.

[Mugwump]

It had been two months since I's cranked the generator.  I should do it every month.  I tried to crank it Saturday.  Gas line open.  Choke on.  Pull, pull, pull.  Go do something else, go back and pull, pull, pull.  NOTHING!  It didn't even try.  The cover blew off it during a big blow but we didn't haven't had a lot of rain.  I'll visit my neighbor Jack.  He knows how to do everything like a pro.  Time was when he'd have come down and fix it for me but he still loves to help with advice.

...flip the 'generator' switch to 'on'...?

[LizStreithorst]

Yes, the key does that.  I turned it to "run".

[Mugwump]

Yes, the key does that.  I turned it to "run".

... cool...don't laugh..we've all done it....

[wallace]

What worked for me was turning the fuel line to the other 'ON'. lol

[Mugwump]

What worked for me was turning the fuel line to the other 'ON'. lol

...had a neighbor trying to start his....I asked if it had gas?.....he says, yep, filled before I used it last time.....so I just left for a coffee refill.....LOL

[LizStreithorst]

Mine has a gas gauge.  It worries me.  It says it's fuller than I remembered it being.  I thought that I'd be able to run it out of gas but the gauge says that it's 3/4 full.  The cover was off but I've looked and can think of no way that rain water could get into the gas tank.

If that is what happened could I find the gas like and drain the tank, and find the carburetor and squirt either into it?  That would have been easy to do on old small engines.  On these new ones, they hide all the working parts.

[LizStreithorst]

What worked for me was turning the fuel line to the other 'ON'. lol

I think that the valve has just had one on but it's worth checking.