Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

Hey folks,

Found this forum today and spent some time reading through a bunch of posts.  Great info!!  I'm hoping some of you could lend me some advice. 

My blower this season has started having issues where after its running, it would just stall out.  It started last season after using it for 30 min or so, and now it happens right after I start her up.  She has no problems starting on choke now.  I did just rebuild the carb and cleaned everything out, including all jets.  I did drain her of old gas and she has new gas too...  So the issue is after running on choke and moving the throttle lever to High position, it may stay running for a couple min, but as soon as I engage the auger or trans, it stalls out.  Even stalls w/o moving auger or trans.   I checked the gas cap too and loosed it, but don't think that's the issue either.  It seemed if I wiggled the clutch wire when it was dying out, it would help for a second or two, but it would still die out.

Of course this happened right before we were slammed w/ over a foot of snow this past weekend.  First time I had to "shovel" the driveway in 20 years. 

P.S. - This blower was purchased in the mid 1980 when I was in high school.  Usually it runs awesome...  Can't imagine what's going on but cringe to think of taking it to the dealer where I'm sure the bill will be over $200 whatever it is...

Thanks in advance for anyone's advice!!

Rov

Video Links of Problem:

http://youtu.be/ZpRrpnuzHJo

http://youtu.be/L77v5fLM4vo

Rover wrote:

Hi Chef Rover,

Good luck with the fix. Hopefully the new carb will take care of it.  One other culprit would be an issue with the ignition (see part #5 on http://www.boats.net/parts/search/Honda/Snow%20Blower/0/HS624K1%20TA-A%20SNOW%20BLOWER%2C%20JPN/FLYWHEEL%20%2B%20IGNITION%20COIL/parts.html).  How old is your sparkplug?  Just make sure you don't have a cracked sparkplug.  Check if your ignition coil is electrically good (check with a Fluke) and has a good connection.  In your video, looks like your engine stops running when it is getting warmed up.  The problem is either no fuel (carb) or no fire (ignition).  Please let us know. 

That engine has a filter in the bottom of the fuel tank and it may be clogged.  Take the fuel line off of the carb and see if there is a good steady stream of fuel flowing out of the hose.  If not follow the hose back to the tank for either inline filter or remove the tank and pull the filter out of the bottom of the tank and clean or replace as needed.

Carl