Getting My Generator Ready for Hurricane Season

Preparing for hurricane season

With hurricane season approaching down here in southern U.S. (Louisiana), I wanted to make sure my generator was in working order. After attempting to start but failing, I realized l had old gas in the tank.

Making sure bad gas was the issue I remove the air breather to access the carburetor. I then sprayed starting fluid into the carb. the generator would run until the starter fluid burned out. So I unscrewed the drain screw on the carb and drained the tank.

After adding fresh gas I notice gas drains from carb. overflow. This told me I had a problem with the carburetor float. I closed off the gas tank on/off lever and sprayed carburetor cleaner into the bowl, let it sit awhile then drain. After repeating a couple time I had the float working and stoping the overflow.

Before replacing the air breather and cover clean the filter according to your owners mnual.

tithe drain plug on the carburetor is located to the side or bottom of the carburetor, from the smell (lack of gas smell ) and color of gas I could tell the fuel was bad.