On 8/29/2010 11:40 PM, Don Foreman wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:17:04 -0400, axolotl
wrote:

I acquired a snowblower. Vintage, as they say on Ebay. It runs, so I am
not inclined to rebuild the carb or otherwise mess with it. Does anyone
have experience with Seafoam or other magic elixirs in small engines?

Kevin Gallimore

Sea Foam is a good fuel stabilizer.

If your snowblower uses the Tecumseh "Snow King" engine, they are
great little engines but they are fussy about carbs. I pull mine and
have it overhauled every 5 years. It only costs about $10 more to
have it done than to buy the "kit" and they do a superb job at a local
hardware store. I don't know what they use to clean them with, but
they look like new. Pick it up the next day, bring it home, bolt it
on, the engine starts on the first pull. I have never had to touch
the mixture screws.


While nowhere in that class, I had to clean my girlfriend's Briggs carb
out a couple of weeks ago.
It was running poorly and stalling once in a while.

The carb is one of those modern molded plastic jobbies.
There is nothing to rebuild in it.

That thing had more gunk in the bottom than I've ever seen in a running
carb!

I used a bit of Sea Foam as solvent.
It worked wonders as that.
Clean as a whistle now and the mower runs a lot better.

It's hard teaching professional females to take care of a motor.
But this one has a clean fetish, so she pays attention,
I showed her the bottom of the sponge air cleaner ONCE, and it gets
removed, WASHED, dried and reinstalled before every run now.

She bought this mower four years ago from Home Despot - on sale for $90.

Hey, it's a Briggs!

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Richard Lamb