re: Looking for someone who works on generators

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Might be too gummed up for this to work. But it doesn’t matter. He’s a soy boy and will just pay someone to get it fixed. What I hate is these are exactly the type of people that complain things are too expensive nowadays. Yeah, if you pay someone to do ever little thing for you.

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I’m 35 and the amount of men around my age and younger who are deathly afraid of tearing something apart and trying to fix it is actually scary to me. We’ve been slowly but surely losing our independence and mechanical knowledge for 2 generations now and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better

Took carb apart cause I’m a man. Was like the day I bought it clean. Put back together still wouldn’t turn over just tried. Upon reading there is an oil safety switch and it does seem kind of low. It was at 92 hours without a change. Gonna get oil tomorrow and try that route. If not it’s above my head

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Took carb apart cause I’m a man. Was like the day I bought it clean

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I’d bet everything I got you really didn’t take it apart sufficiently to see if anything is wrong. It can look clean but clogged up.

I really just get new carbs. They are so damn cheap it’s almost not worth it to rebuild them.

Go to Amazon and get the carb. Probably only $25

Is there a fuel on/off lever? Are you getting fuel to the carb at all?

You got spark? Pretty rare for a spark plug to wear out on a small engine but still.

The low oil switch will kill it so that might be it IF it’s too low.

Is the start switch on?

Do you have gas in the MFer?

Instead of shutting off the generator, turn the fuel supply off and let it run until it uses up the gas left in the line/carb. Doing this will save you a lot of headaches.

Other than gumming up the carb, fuel can slowly leak into the engine oil. It ruins its viscosity and quickly blows the motor. I can't even count the times I've seen this kill small engines stored over winter.

If the oil level is above normal and or smells like gas then change the oil.

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Best advice? Buy a Honda. It'll be a little painful now, but in twenty years when it still starts on the first pull, you'll never think about how much you paid for it.

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Buying a Honda makes zero difference if you don't do basic maintenance like storing it with a dry carb. I've got 30 year old briggs that run like a top and a scrap pile of hondas.

I've had Honda water pumps that were nightmares. Bad carbs, clogged screens in the tanks and faulty oil level sensors. My most reliable pump doesn't even have a brand, it's logo is literally "gasoline engine". It doesn't have sensors or extra screens in the fuel tank.

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I've had one Honda, because one is all I have ever needed. I bought it in 2005 before Hurricane Dennis and it still starts on the first pull every time.
I do run the carb bowl dry before I store it.

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They are great with basic maintenance and residential light duty use. Not so great when ran hard regularly.

We have to defeat the oil level sensors on all of our honda trash pumps. If they aren't set up absolutely level they won't run. It's just not realistic for them to be perfectly level all the time. The ones with generic replacement motors run better with less attention

They have a super fine mesh screen inside the fuel tank. Damn near impossible to clean/remove. Makes no sense...any debris will get caught in the easily replaceable external filter. I got two Hondas running on a remote jobsite by repeatedly jabbing holes in the fuel tank screen. It was the only way to get fuel flowing.

When your trying to get work done the Hondas are just too temperamental with all their nannies.

Not to hijack the post, but what brands are you getting the best results with?

You see this? Rotary switch.