You can find parts online now but Dale lives in Canada so that is a bit harder
to get parts there. I bet the Canadian Tire stores can find tune up parts.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Paganelli
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine carbeurator question
They use to be something like 6 bucks if memory serves correctly but finding
one might not be easy. I don't even have anything around here with the
exception of a weed eater and when that quits, we pitch it and get a new one
and like I said, I took the course in 1980 so anything I know is 30 years
old.
Alan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Kennedy" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine carbeurator question
>I always remove the seat since they come as a set. They aren't a matched
>set however. Instead of folding the fuel line, you can stick a quarter
>inch bolt in the line and that will plug it off.
>
> There are fuel shut offs available as well that you can put in the line.
> I like them so I can put them up for winter without having fuel in the
> carb all year long. I close the shut off and then run the engine until
> it's out of gas.
>
> The kit should be under $5 for a needle and seat. I'm out of touch with
> pricing now so I don't know how much more a carb kit runs. But that will
> have the ring that seals the float bowl to the carb.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dale Leavens
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 11:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine carbeurator question
>
>
>
> OK,
>
> I figured it might be called a needle valve. I have run into trouble with
> them decades ago on marine outboard motors, I suppose the oil, quart to
> five gallons back when I used to play with them, maybe as you say,
> perishing rubber from the hoses.
>
> I'll have to try and get my hands on a kit I suppose.
>
> One other question.
>
> Do I remove the original seat or can I leave it?
>
> I expect you are right about the rubber hose. The bowl was full of crud
> when I removed it. I don't remember ever seeing crap like that in one like
> that before now. That little spring clip wasn't attached, I suspect it was
> interfering with the needle moving up into the seat but there may well be
> debris in there as well. This hose doesn't have a shut-off either and I
> would like to find one to install. I have been folding the hose and
> stuffing it between the tank and the engine while working on it to keep
> the fuel from running through.
>
> Thanks for this, I'll go in search of spare parts.
>
> Dale Leavens.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Kennedy
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 10:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine carbeurator question
>
> It's called a needle. It closes fuel off by the float pushing it into a
> seat. Thus the name I'm sure you've heard together, needle and seat.
> You'll have to buy them as a pair.
>
> The spring can drive you crazy. But before that happens, know it will
> work well without the hassle of the spring clip.
>
> What you will want to do when you get a new one is to install the seat,
> on that engine it should be a round O ring looking piece kind of squared
> off at the shoulders. You can install it by setting it in the opening, and
> use either a round punch, or the shank end of a drill bit to push it in
> place. Try not to use a hammer to set it, there is a small shoulder in the
> opening and you can push right past it using a hammer.
>
> Next, set the needle in the new seat and then run the pin through the
> back of the float.
>
> When that is done, feel across what will now be the bottom edge, normally
> the top edge of the float. Make sure that edge is parallel to the body of
> the carb. If it sits "low" pointed toward the float bowl, or up at you in
> this case, it can starve the engine. If it sits high, pointed toward the
> body of the carb, it can flood.
>
> That's all there is to it. While you have it apart, spray some carburetor
> cleaner in the area to wash out any dirt or garbage that has found it's
> way in.
>
> You may also consider replacing any of the quarter inch fuel line. Often
> times as they get older the insides will break down and bits of the line
> can lodge in the seat area causing it to flood.
>
> Let me know if this doesn't work.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dale Leavens
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:43 PM
> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Tacumseh engine carbeurator question
>
> Good evening,
>
> I have a wood chipper and leaf shredder powered by a horizontal four
> stroke Tecumseh engine. The damn engine has given me a lot of grief over
> the years, trouble starting after periods of inactivity. Oddly, this year
> it has behaved fairly well. Then it began leaking fuel around the top of
> the sediment bowl. The problem appears to be the little pin like valve
> arrangement which should close off the fuel flow when the float raises and
> pushes the little beggar into the orifice. Well I disassembled it, there
> is a little spring clip which I was trying to figure out where it connects
> when I lost the little pin like valve closer in the grass.
>
> I need to know what this little bad boy is called so I can see if I can
> chase down a new one.
>
> It is a 6 or 8 sided pin about half an inch long I suppose beveled to a
> point at one end and with a ring milled out very near the other end where
> this little spring wire clip snaps onto it. It sits on top of the float
> so, when the float is up it pushes firmly into the fuel port from the fuel
> tank.
>
> Those of you with mechanical training may know what this little device is
> called.
>
> Thanks for this.
>
> Dale leavens.
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