"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" wrote:

Larry Jaques fired this volley in
:

But both mechanical and electric fuel pumps generally keep the float
bowl full, and there would be gas in the carb when you went to start
it ten minutes or more later. Your complaint has holes in it.

No my initial description had holes in it. It lights if it was running
OK when left alone. But just like my old Dayton genset, that updraft
carb takes a BIG swallow of gas on cranking, and what's in the bowl
doesn't last long enough to get the 'sputters' out.

I find if I wet-prime the filter before I crank it the first time, it
runs long enough to re-establish prime -- maybe a minute and a half. If
I don't, it dies in about 30 seconds, and must be primed anyway.

I admit that sounds like a low float settings, because I'd think what was
in the bowl should last longer than that.

Larry, like with a lot of cars, everything is up hill from the tank.

The last time the forklift guy was here on rcm, he disputed something I
said, and I agreed with him, and bowed to his expertice. But he wasn't
high-handed about his knowlege, and didn't assume I was stupid. He just
described the actual Hyster lift characteristics I mistook.

You _started_ by stating that what I've actually seen with my empty,
gasoline-free hose coming out of the tank is impossible, then went down-
hill from there.

How would you feel if someone told you, "Dummy, you have to put a
standard transmission in gear before the car will go up a hill", when you
told them it had a broken ring gear in the pumpkin?

I don't know what that is supposed to mean, but I agree with
Larry. From the sketchy info you have supplied it is very
unlikely that the problem is the tube in the tank.

For one thing, you said it has an electric pump.
That pump should work whenever it has power. It
shouldn't need the engine to run for 1.5 minutes
for it to start working. If it can ever pump and
and fill the carb, it should be able to do that
before you even attempt to crank the engine.

-jim





Lloyd