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Before you put your lawn mower, or any gasoline engine powered tool away for the Winter season do it and yourself a huge favor. Take a few minutes to give your trusted engine and lawn mower, leaf blower, tiller, hedge trimmer, etc. a little TLC which will add years to it's life and make it much easier on you in the Spring.
The following steps are all easy to do and they will make a huge difference in the Spring when you need your power tools again:
1. Remove as much of the fuel as you can with a siphon and then run the engine until it runs out of fuel. Leaving that gasoline sitting in your tank and in your engine will cause problems with starting in the Spring. That way you will not have a problem in the Spring when you fire it up again. Regards, Joe
Those little carbs clog very easily and what you experience is a common symptom. Go to any bog box home store and in the mower area pick up a can of small engine carb cleaner.
Remove the carb, take it apart as far as you comfortably can and soak all pieces in a can/jar of CLEAN gasoline for 10 -15 mins. Agitate to get the gas moving.
Remove the carb, and drip clean then use the carb cleaner to blow out every port you can see. reassemble and install the carb, it should work fine.
Before storing for the winter drain all gas from the tank and start it allowing the machine to run till it stalls out due to no gas. You should be fine for next season that way.
This does not sound like an air leak, normally an air leak will cause fast uncontrollable idle, if it sounds muffled i would be looking at a blocked spark arrestor, or exhaust port, or muffler.Slacken the muffler right off and just try running it to see if it picks up normally.
I believe that ToroGuarantees to start 1 Pull, was gas left in it all winter?, If so this is'nt covered under warranty, cause gas is to be ran out or dumped out at end of season this will prevent any gumming up of carb . did you completelydisassemblecarb? does it have a primer on it, those gskts need replacing, clean out the jet in bottum of float bowl,small holes,sometimes missed and remove and check your needle/seat to make sure that when float drops gas runs out then lift float up and gas should stop. hope this helped you,another thing spray carb cleaner in carb and pull over and see if it will start that way enough to keep running with choke to see if it will **** gas into it
you most likely need to remove the carb float bolw and clean it out...after sitting, gas forms a varnish like substance that gums things up and will keep the moter from running.....I see it EVERY spring....remember to drain the fuel when putting away for the season, of put a good feul satbilizer in the tank (STA-BIL works well)
Start by removing and cleaning the spark plug. The check out the screen at the exhaust port and make sure that it is completely free of carbon build-up. I never run my equipment out of gas at the end of a season, I usually add some fuel stabilizer to the gas and run some into the carb before shutting down for the season. Hope this helps and good luck.
The humidifier should not turn on untill the furnace blower starts. Since the fan stays on. does the solenoid valve also stay on? If they both stay on you probably have a bad humidistat. If only the blower stays on then the circuit bourd in the humidifier is defective.
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I would check it at the start of every season and clean it. If you note that it seems to be running rich and might have fouled the plug, you can always pull it and check it again. Probably not a bad idea to check it before you put it away for the season. As for replacement, it depends on condition. I would think that you should get two or three season's use out of it before needing to replace it, at least.
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