[Mgs] Cleaning HIF carbs

[Barney Gaylord]

If it runs on starting fluid, the spark is okay and you have a fuel 
problem.  I hope you know it needs full choke and fast idle setting 
for cold start.  Wild guess, perhaps the float valves are stuck shut 
after storage so it has no fuel in the float chambers.


At 12:07 PM 4/10/2014 -0400, Steve Shoyer wrote:
>.... I had pulled off a plug and it was dry, with no fuel odor, 
>which made me suspect the carbs.  I thought that there was spark 
>because the engine fired when I sprayed the starting fluid, but that 
>was as far as I went.
>....


>----Original Message-----
>...
>The other way is to check the plugs after cranking on and off for 30 
>secs or so.  At the very least the plugs should smell strongly of 
>fuel.  They may be wet i.e. flooded.  If dry and no fuel smell then 
>no fuel is getting through to the cylinders.
>
>By the way, don't 'guess' you have spark at the plugs, prove it!