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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] gasoline
  • Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 15:05:20 -0700

Fall maintenance usually helps. Drain the tank and start the motor until
all fuel is out of the lines. Then unscrew the sparkplug and put some oil
in the cylinder. You'll have to drain that in the spring, but your machine
will be in better shape for it.


on 5/11/02 12:47 PM, Betty Mayfield at bmayfield@columbia-center.org wrote:

> To the list:
>
> I hope this will not be considered off-topic, but has anyone had any
> experience with gasoline-operated gardening equipment since they took the
> lead out of gas?
>
> It used to be that everything would start up right away in the spring, but
> now I have to take everything to the repair shop for a clean-out even
> though I thought I had run it dry in the fall. Last season I bought a
> little vial of additive which was supposed to keep the gas from gumming up,
> but the same old problem this spring. Things won't start without a trip to
> the shop.
>
> How do you solve this?
>
> Betty Mayfield
>
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