On 2/28/2021 8:59 AM, dan wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 08:42:20 -0600, Snag wrote:


The hoses are a tight slip fit in the holes in the tank .

OK. Good. That's what I was hoping. The larger yellow hose coming out the
top of the carb is pulled out cleanly so am I to conclude it's the return?

The supply
line will usually have a filter on the inside end .

The smaller greenish blue is the one that broke at the tank edge so it's
currently blocking the hole (I can probably pick it out though).

Am I to assume that's the input fuel line to the carb?

I install them by
cutting the end of the hose at a long taper to get it started in the
hole , pull it in as far as needed with long nose pliers or a hemostat
then cut it off square and install the filter.

I hadn't thought of the filter. It must be still inside the tank.

The return hose needs
only to come inside the tank , supply needs to be long enough to reach
the bottom of the tank - unless you only want to use the top half ...

What I think I'll do is poke out the greenish blue hose from its hole in the
gas tank and see if I can shake out the filter to reuse it (I didn't think
of buying a spare).

There's a black connector a couple of inches away from the carb which I
assume is a one way valve (but I'm not really sure what it is as it doesn't
show up in the tank picture on the Troy-Bilt web site).


The nipples on the carb will be different sizes , as the hoses are .
Look inside the tank , either the filter (if there is one) should either
be on the end of the blue hose or rattling around free if it was on the
yellow . That black device may be the filter , if so there is probably
some kind of device inside the tank too to keep the hose on the bottom .
It's only hard to figger out the first time ... unlike the chain oil
pump plumbing on a 50 year old Homelite Super 2 chainsaw !
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Snag
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