How are you storing the blower during the off season? In our clime
(I'm west of you one state), and you can store your lawnmowers over
the winter as the gasoline generally does not evaporate the light
hydro-carbons. BUT never store chainsaws, snow blowers or any other
tool with gasoline over the summer (unless your using them often), as
you end up with tar (the heavy HCs) in the carburetor. Even if you
have a gas shutoff, unless you run the fuel bowl dry, you end up with
the fuel jet ports plugged/fowled.
You may end up having to remove the carburetor and soak in cleaner.
Depends on if you don't have a shutoff, and it sat in a storage shed
all summer.

Darn, this was a nice winter until Thursday. At least it's 6 weeks
later then normal.

ignator

On Jan 13, 8:45*pm, Ignoramus16789 ignoramus16...@NOSPAM.
16789.invalid wrote:
On 2012-01-14, wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:36:41 -0600, Ignoramus16789
wrote:

Dragged out my snowblower and I noticed that it skips ignitions and
does not "fire" every time. What could possibly account for this?

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How old is the gas? Has it been stored under cover, in the dry, or in
damp where water could get into gas. First step is drain any old gas
and put in fresh gas of lowest ethanol content you can find.

The gas is a year old, or more. (I used it last year, but the gas in
the can may have been old even then).

I ran it out of gas yesterday, dumped old gas from the can, and bought
new gas. I will try it on new gas and will report.







*Good idea to drain the carb float bowl too and make sure it is clean..
If the carb is gummed up it will usually run lean - and a lean blower
engine will "hunt". Turn the mixture screw out until it settles down
(usually 1/4 turn or so) and put a cleaner in the gas. I'm partial to
SeaFoam, but MMO has been reported to give good results too - likely
take a bit longer from my experience, and a can of SeaFoam and a
bottle of MMO are about the same price, *Once the cleaner has done
it's thing you can turn the screw back in to the proper mix.