Fighting suburbia in NC
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It has been a number of years since I performed Texas!'s modification on my fuel valve so the size of the o-rings required escapes my memory and my (cough cough) filing system for that kind of information is, shall we say, less than adequate as of late.
I was mowing this past weekend and the SOS came to a sputtering stop for no apparent reason. Felt like out of fuel, yet I had just filled the tank up. Reached up under the tank and the valve had no resistance to turning. I spent the rest of afternoon trying to keep electrical tape jammed around it to keep it open (use what you have handy and get the job done).
As loose as the stem is it is not leaking, much to my surprise, so new o-rings are in order. I have an o-ring kit somewhere in the shop but it has some age on it. Any particular material to avoid since we are talking about it seeing 10% ethanol gas at times, but only when I know I am going to be running it most of the way out, at which point I refill with non-alky fuel if it si gonna sit.
Any help most appreciated.
I was mowing this past weekend and the SOS came to a sputtering stop for no apparent reason. Felt like out of fuel, yet I had just filled the tank up. Reached up under the tank and the valve had no resistance to turning. I spent the rest of afternoon trying to keep electrical tape jammed around it to keep it open (use what you have handy and get the job done).
As loose as the stem is it is not leaking, much to my surprise, so new o-rings are in order. I have an o-ring kit somewhere in the shop but it has some age on it. Any particular material to avoid since we are talking about it seeing 10% ethanol gas at times, but only when I know I am going to be running it most of the way out, at which point I refill with non-alky fuel if it si gonna sit.
Any help most appreciated.
