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A hairline crack on the intake should not effect the output pressure (unless it leaks so bad
it is starving the pump).
A hairline crack that first appears in the spring suggests that maybe water froze in the pump.
If freezing water caused the crack then likely the pump is shot.
You might try JB weld. It should hold up to typical input pressures. Cost you $5 to try.
If the input hairline crack is the ONLY problem with the pump it is worth
getting an estimate for welding (welding cast alum is tricky).
Does the leak get worse when you start the unit? If so then the pump is
trying to pressurize the input and is probably shot. The cheap pumps used
in these units are not worth rebuilding, time to buy a new one.
I suspect you are looking at getting either a new pump, or, a new machine.
Depending on how heavily used your engine is it might be worth getting a new
pump. Likely that unit has one of the cheaper Honda engines, and if you used
the unit alot it might be getting tired as well. The HD, $500 and under units
are fine for home use, but will not stand up to comercial use. If you use
this unit almost daily then it might be a good time to cut your losses and
get a professional quality unit.

Hey Marshall - are you still here?

There is a trick to turning them.  Basically you kind of pick up and turn the handle on the inner side of the turn.
You don't have to actually pick that side of the machine up, just give some upward pressure as you pull the machine around.
That way the track on the outside of the turn has more traction and kind of pulls the machine around.

BTW, what happed to the "off topic" discussion area?

I don't know how gas dryers vent. Do they mix the spent gas with the heat and moisture from the dryer?

We use an electric dryer. In the summer I vent outside. In the winter I vent inside through a stocking.
The stocking seems to catch whatever the lint filter lets through, except the heat and moisture that the house needs in the winter.
I thought everybody did this... It only takes a few minutes each year to change the vent connection.

I'm no expert, but I'd drain all fuel, put a piece of plastic wrap under the fuel cap, clean it up the best I could, then wrap it in a few plastic bags.

I don't know what it was, but, I'd call it a rust bucket.