On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:40:51 -0500, 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.
I finally had mine done after 23 years, gave it new belts while I was
at it - just like a new machine. This is part of the reason I enjoy
winter, plus the fact that with a corner lot, I just toss the snow
from my eight car parking lot over the hedge onto the boulevard of the
side street.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada