Small engine question

notjustair · Jul 1, 2015

My arthritis has gotten bad enough that I needed a new tiller. I bought a Troy Bilt horse (older model) to go with my smaller TB Bronco. The old front tine tiller just beat me up too bad. I got it new about 30 years ago - it has the good old L head Briggs 5 horse on it. It's never given me any trouble other than a carb kit about 7 years ago. It was a little bit of a pain to find the right kit locally at that time.

I'm not sure when I would use it again. Right now I have it running in the barnyard as it has 3/4 tank of fuel in it. When the Coop delivers gas I always put a gallon of seafoam in the barrel, so it has stabilizer in it. I was going to run the engine out of gas and use fogging oil on the cylinder. I thought about letting it run low on fuel and then pouring in a little chainsaw gas for it to quit on. I thought maybe the oil may help the diaphragm in the carb stay limber. What say you all?

mark18 · Jul 1, 2015

just run her dry.

Jason S. · Jul 1, 2015

(quoted from post at 15:37:29 07/01/15) My arthritis has gotten bad enough that I needed a new tiller. I bought a Troy Bilt horse (older model) to go with my smaller TB Bronco. The old front tine tiller just beat me up too bad. I got it new about 30 years ago - it has the good old L head Briggs 5 horse on it. It's never given me any trouble other than a carb kit about 7 years ago. It was a little bit of a pain to find the right kit locally at that time.

I'm not sure when I would use it again. Right now I have it running in the barnyard as it has 3/4 tank of fuel in it. When the Coop delivers gas I always put a gallon of seafoam in the barrel, so it has stabilizer in it. I was going to run the engine out of gas and use fogging oil on the cylinder. I thought about letting it run low on fuel and then pouring in a little chainsaw gas for it to quit on. I thought maybe the oil may help the diaphragm in the carb stay limber. What say you all?

If you have access to it get some AV gas. It leaves no residue.

ditchwitch · Jul 1, 2015

Run it dry , Thats what i do. Fires right up the next year

JRSutton · Jul 1, 2015

I agree just run I dry and fog it.

Then give it a few pulls/cranks from time to time, like once a month or so.

Russ from MN · Jul 1, 2015

I think the chainsaw gas is a good idea to run it out, it will leave many parts lubricated. I recently resurrected a Honda (4-stroke) outboard that had been neglected that way, sea-foam and oil in the gas. I ran it awhile, let it sit awhile, and run it again, cleared right up and runs like new now!

Billy Shafer · Jul 1, 2015

I agree with the others. Run it dry.

ShadetreeRet · Jul 1, 2015

Most owners manuals recommend drain the tank and run engine until lines and carburetor are dry, add a little oil through spark plug hole and rotate engine slowly a few times to distribute the oil.
I know a Briggs engine with the fuel pump and carb on top of the fuel tank is difficult to remove the gas, as well as many other small engine tanks. I'm sure many of you already use this method, but for the rest, I use a battery filler bulb to suck the gas out of the tank. This will get almost all of it, then you can use a rag to soak up what is left and the tank will be dry.

Dean · Jul 1, 2015

Change the engine oil, run it dry and fog it as it stalls.

I too have a front time tiller (5 HP Tecumseh) last used regularly in 1987.

I changed the oil, ran it dry and fogged it in 87 before storage. About 10 years ago, I needed to use it for a small project and it started right up with fresh gas. Upon shut down I fogged it again.

A couple of times each year as I walk by, I pull it through a couple of revolutions.

I'm confident that it will start and run properly if I need it again but it will likely need a new fuel line.

Dean

HossinMe · Jul 1, 2015

I shut mine off and start it up again next year.Moat people worry too much over silly things. Hoss

GVSII · Jul 1, 2015

You won't go wrong adding a 2 stroke gas /oil mix to the tank.I've been doing this for years when I lay up an engine.Run the engine until you see smoke or can smell oil in the exhaust.

cuby · Jul 1, 2015

I just used my Craftsman 2 stroke garden cult. today and it fired right up on second pull. Hadnt been started for three yrs.and I use ethonal gas{mixed w/oil},no seafoam,no problems.

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