this vintage well built Homelite gen set was donated to us after sitting in a new england shed for 20 years, the kicker is it was stored with Marvel Mystery Oil when it was put away, so lets see if that helped to preserve it.

Hey guys how's it going we're hanging out with george george called me up, he's cleaning out his shed and he has a couple of goodies inside here that have been here for how long, oh, i don't know, because i stole them all um. I don't know 15. 20 years anyways, but you said you put them away decently: oh yeah, they all got the carburetors filled with the mr oil and the bowl and stuff like that and there's no gas in the tanks or anything so once a generator and the other one is a Pressure washer power and they're, both home lights, they're, both like brother and sister. Well, you know i bought one and then i went back to do something i said: hey yeah.

Oh you got that he's just still being the sweetheart dealer yeah. They said you need this. So i came home with it nice, so um we're gon na go see how well they held up sitting 15 20 years being put away correctly and see if they come back to life without many issues. If they have issues we'll figure out what they are and that will bring them back, yeah i'll, bring it back i'll, sew them and also there's a shenandoah uh hedge trimmer.

That looks like it's from a horror film. I like that. A blade on that thing. So we're gon na go grab that and we'll uh.

I bought that on a bella lugosi and it's got the plug wire, broken off the coil and some other things on. It looks like uh. He doesn't remember trying to fix it, but apparently somebody was with the cover and everything off of there, so we're gon na bring a bunch of stuff back to the shop and we'll uh see what we can do all right. So let me just do a quick little recap on this and we'll get into it, so this generator sat in a shed for roughly 20 years, so i figure a little after the year 2000.

It was put away, but it was put away decently. He was a mechanic, his mechanic for a factory, so he's used to doing maintenance on stuff and when he did, he put it away with mr oil in the gas tank and in the car bowl. What we'll do is we'll look inside there see how that stuff. If it's anything any remnants of it are left or did it protect stuff did stuff still end up rusting anyway, don't know so we're about to go find out.

It looks pretty clean for sitting as long as it's sad, i do not see a bunch of crap. I don't see any mice see a wire off going somewhere. I don't see the bottom of the tank rotted out. I don't see much rusted at all, so that that shed stayed pretty dry, looks like a decent machine too.

It's a good quality, it's a 38. But what's it uh? Isn't it it's like a 42 or something lion? What do they say on it? Yeah 42.. All right get, you understand start getting into it figure out if you'll come back to life and if not whatever we got to go fix to go. Make that happen or wherever the journey takes us.

Let's go guess. The first thing we should do is that was even on there take a peek in the tank. Oh boy, there is definitely a bunch of crap sitting in there, but the oil noise bothering you, the oil, seems like it's still there. It's still like a wet with a residue, so we'll go poke at that later see if that's just kind of really crispy or if it's just like debris, sitting on the bottom of the tank that engine let's go, see how it turns, and it's got a lot Of drag wolf that feels pretty good got a decent compression too.
Let's get the air cleaner off. Take a look at the inside of the car. I'm curious to see how stuff holds up even just things due to age like sometimes they have a foam pre-filter. You see the oil right there drips out of the carb does not have one there's some of the air cleaner too.

Let's pop that bowl right off the carburetor, let's go see if stuff moves choke moves, i'm gon na throttle yep throttle's free all right. Let's get this popped off of here, we'll get to the bowl we'll pop that off and take a look in the center of that. Actually there's only the fuel line and the throttle linkage hold. Let's get those two popped off and then we'll go over on the bench.

Hmm, nice, you remember how that goes, don't fall off well, it should be full of oil. If the fuel line we're still putting out marble there we go. The thing is too bad: we didn't have a look. You know into a crystal ball, what it looked like when it was put away because it wasn't like it was new when it was put away.

I do see, i don't know if you want to call that corrosion or get something to dig at that with it's on there. I would probably say it was already there, though, there's a ring line there too. The rest of it looks main jets down the center of it right down there, and i do see some corrosion. I don't know if it's blocked or not, but i do see some corrosion down the center of it.

Let me let's see if we can get a screwdriver down the center of that, we'll pop that out, we'll look and see if that got blocked off. If that got blocked off, then the oil didn't save it. It wouldn't have started up right away anyway. You would have to get the oil out of there, so you still have to drain the bowl and get that out.

It's not like you would have pull started, that's putting gas in it. If that was in front of it, it would have to try to suck all that up and that's not gon na. It's not gon na fire on that looks under the uh magnifying glass. The only thing i could see right now is it's bridged by oil.

So you can get a crack loose. Well, it's coming out. It's a good time, a lot of stuff, that's four years old! You can't get it out because the fuel went bad plus. This was also probably done before we had ethanol in our fuel.

I don't know was ethanol around in like 2000 2001, that's the jet, i'm gon na. Look. It up hold it up to the light, and i do not think i could see through it. That's where all all the fuel would have to get sucked up through that.

That's kind of like the run not run, and it's looking a little wait. We can get light on this thing. It's got some crap around the sides here, i'm just showing up. I got ta get that crap inside there again.
The only problem is, it wasn't like it was a new machine put away it that all could have been stuff there. That was already sitting there, but i do not think if we were just to run straight gasoline. I think it would have fought us a little bit. We blew that jet out.

Does this haven't idled? Yet it is a generator, so it just runs at one rpm. I got this one here. This one should not be down in the fuel chamber, though, and again you should be able to blow through those ports and this that that little right there is what we're looking at, should be able to see through that to the other side now they're offset from Each other, but it has to be able to draw through the center of that and out those sides. So i don't know, i don't know if that one's clogged or not all right, uh, let's it's our air fuel mix, get that out of there.

I see a there's still a bunch of the red. This thing was soaked in it boy. It was everywhere. If you can see it all right, i'm gon na go clean this up blow the crap out of it get the junk out.

Get the jet passages cleared back up put the car back together. It does have a screw and emulsion tube. Let's see if we can get that out now, that'll have a bunch more ports in it, and this is that's what the jet was sitting in there you go, which was showing a bunch of that rust that we were looking at we're trying to look down the Hole, oh yeah, so right there shows a bunch of dirtiness. There's there's holes there there probably two other places.

It should go right through another misalign, of course, on this one too, but anyway it has to be able to flow through those and those right there, and then the center is where that jet was sitting, not that one that one that was down in the center Of that run in, and that has to go suck up through the middle of that that's what meters, how much gas is getting mixed with the air? Now i'll go clean them up. I don't think that was going to run that that's looking uh a decent amount of crud to it if it rained it would have rained with the choke on. Let's go pop the float out. Let's see how that needle looks.

He looks really good, so the needle is what maintains the fuel level in the float bowl. Think of it pulling your bathtub up, the water level gets so high and it hits that drain only getting higher. Something like that turns on and off a valve maintains a fuel level right around there. Sometimes the sheet of that can get dirty, it'll cause it just overflow and gas will just be pouring out of the carburetor.

That's generally the problem, the area that causes a problem. I think a little q-tip would do that wonders, but there's a seal on one side or the other. Where is it? Did i do it, i'm looking right at it yeah so either the seal is going to be on the needle, and this that hole down here is called the seat and sometimes the seat will have the seat in it all right. You get the idea now go wash that stuff up we'll move on that carbs all back together.
Let's take a quick peek that all looks nice. The size of that valve is nice and shiny. It's a little rusty. We think that wire went too, maybe like an electric start or something just hanging out, because it's not part of the party it looks like it's got: uh low, uh, idle speed, so there's no power being drawn on it kicks down to an idle.

I think that's what that solenoid is right there, let's go pop the plug out of it and uh. At the same time, we can see if it has any spark - and i may want to put - i don't know if we need to put oil down that one. I think we might be okay. This gets plugged out, let's go see who we got, it looks like it was cleaned and put back in there.

This goes use pug plug that was cleaned all right. Let's go plug it in give her a couple yanks to see. If we got spark and on the control panel, what do we need on that doesn't matter? I think this is going to be for that low idle speed. You kick it over to run it'll if there's no draw on it.

It'll it'll, just chug it on down. I think we're good. Let's go give her yeah we're looking right there, i'm not gon na try holding on to it. Oh yeah, i can see that it's jumping from the body of the plug to the sheet metal.

Did you see it right? There yeah sparking both places, okay, good and let's fill to the top, and we need the stick. It's filled all the way up all right, so we have a dirty gas tank to deal with, so we could probably try to run it off with something else. Just for now yeah, let's go see. If i can uh jury up, i can on the side of it, put that card back on there.

So a lot of times, the generator part, the part that makes the power can crap out and i think they lose their demagnetation. Is that a word they get demagnetized? So it does not get excited, and sometimes you have to. I think these are for much older machines, not like. I wouldn't even suspect this one's going to be an issue either i'd like to put the air cleaner on for now um they would lose their magnetism and you'd have to like stick a drill in there and spin it over with a drill or spit a drill.

Over with your hand - and you excite the feel by creating a little bit of power in the system, i've never had any good luck with that, usually if it works or works, and if it's dead, it's dead all right. I think our throttle's hooked up right. Yes, no yeah, yeah, that's idle! That's full throttle, that's a choke! Let's get some gas set up to it. Yeah it's got a temporary tank set up on it.

Let's go see, hopefully the bowl shuts off and does not can decide too. You can see it running in to see the air bubbles going in see if it overflows. I see shininess right there happening, ah that needle and seat that needle seat isn't. Quite i took a q-tip and i kind of cleaned up inside there too also that o-ring on the bowl isn't all that great, but you could see she's leaking without that bright light on there.
There you go that might be an issue. I'm gon na go pinch. The line back off so that it doesn't have a never ending amount going into it and uh. Let's give her a tug, see what we get in case it fires up.

I got a drill and a heat gun ready to go, put a load on it and see if the ac part of it is working. How many poles you think, i'm going to say they have a tendency to kind of spin a little bit and keep momentum with the choke on. Let's see i want to go, i want to go two more. I'm going to say three.

I'm gon na go with two put your bets one. I think it flooded itself when that uh float was not sealed, but you guys shut it off. When i was uh, not looking, no we're still in the opposition, she should go. I think it might have flooded itself, though, with that bowl, i think it'll go yeah.

It's just absolutely flooded. I'm gon na pull the plug out, we'll drive the plug back off and give it a shot again. It's pretty wet all right. Let's try it again.

No choke right now give her a couple of yanks smell a lot of gas. I changed out the plug to a different one. Not a new one, come on a little crazy here, choke on run out of gas. That's what it i was is to get rid of the hunt uh by the air fuel mixture, which is just doing the idle speed.

It doesn't do anything for the high speed, so i forgot i had it clamped off that was running out of fuel. So if it's running out of fuel, it's also going to hunt all right. Let's fire it back up foreign, so well, it makes power. That's the good part bad part is there is carburetor issues, it does not have an idle circuit.

What i was doing that again, the air fuel mix for the idle speed. I was trying to find a window where it would work, and i would back the throttle off like that. Little solenoid would it would fire it just like that and make it go to an idle when it was going to an idle there's, just nothing there and that's why it's hunting like it is it's too high in the rpms. It goes to back the throttle off, backs the throttle off into more like the idle area, but there's nothing there, so it just falls on its face and it has to recover.

So it goes. Full throttle tries to recover going the other way, sometimes the more of a load you put on it now. The throttle just has to demand more and more, and it actually just makes it so it kind of stays out of the idle area, but definitely has a carburetor problem. So let's go pop that back off of there and of course we didn't ultrasonic clean it and uh that's the payment.

For but again we it kind of shows what issues you're gon na run into i'm gon na go turn a fan on or get that carb off. So the idle circuit is not what's down the mean, it is going to be with this, and you need a screwdriver for the other one so somewhere in those passages it's not happening. Some people are going to say right now. You don't have the air cleaner on and all that it's not going to do that.
Shouldn't hunt that bad it was. It should still idle and if it didn't idle and was just off a little bit if i were to add a little bit of choke to it, that would it restricts the air flow and causes it to draw more fuel. So it changes the air mixture by just by adjusting that's kind of the same idea as restricting the size of the jet on the fuel on the way in and it didn't do it there's just nothing there. Every time i went down to go to idle, there was nothing there, so i took brake clean and i shot it through my glasses on so i can see, and so i don't get squirted in the eye, so i shot through the center and it came out These side posts make sure it's still doing that.

Yes, i'll get, you guys did i so i believe, that's still clear, i'm gon na go try. You can't really poke a one that is such a tiny orifice. That is in there that if you were to go and start poking around in there you're going to throw that air fuel mix off, you just want to make sure you can blow air through it and then again the rest of it's going to be in the Block down the side that passage which i blew through and it kind of came out through where the adjusting screw is it's uh, you can see they'll make the passage of the head pressure. You can see it coming out there, so that passage is clear, but that does not mean between there and there is okay but where it picks up from the the generally.

It's in one of these bodies on the side here that it draws it up through. Let's get this float back off of there and get a better look, i'm not sure on this, where it would be with the idle. I didn't notice that this seems like it's kind of high up to so what it might be a lot of times you have like when you're drilling, something you have a casting that the way this works right now is drawing fuel through those holes for the main And somewhere along the line, it also draws up for the idle circuit somewhere. In this connection, i don't know - maybe kind of doubt that it's gon na be those are gon na be flat against the ball.

So it can't be those right. So my opinion is, it might be in this tube, but how they accessed it. Is they drill a hole through there to drill a port through there? Is that on the same side, yeah it is and then, when they're done, they just put a plug in it. So you're not sucking air through that hole, but there internally there'll be a passage right here which is not doing what it's supposed to be doing and then and that's this is the other one too.

They drilled that to make the one going straight up through it. How do you get that clean good question? I'm gon na get that the main jet back out of it again the emulsion, tube and uh. I bet you there's a little hole that goes that way in that way. So these are the two we took out before.
You see them up there center on that, and then i look down you can still see like on the walls. I just got a cup for one more screwdriver passage problem is yeah, i'm gon na have to find or make a screwdriver that is really close to the size of the walls, because it's just going to rip out see how it locks in that's the another piece. That's still in there sometimes they're, just pressed into but again, why would you have a screwdriver tip on it? That's the where the center of the motion tube comes up. That probably has a passage that allows it to draw up into that idle circuit is my guess.

I'm gon na look down the throat of that see where it starts above or below that it's about dead, even that's where the screw starts right about there. Actually, let's go where's the screwdriver. Let's go put that down the side there right, we'll just put our nail on it yeah, so it's lower than that yeah! I can see the port i'm gon na go! Try taking and fishing i'm gon na put a little hook on it. I'm going to fish down with the turn on it and see.

If i can go clean out that little port right there, i could see it, you guys forget it. Can you huh yeah, it's in there all right, they got hooked in there. So i'm down in and through this way nothing says this passage is clear, going the rest of the way up, though, and we're going to there you go so i know that part of it's clear when this body is in there does that block. So where would this end up when it's threaded in kind of lined right up with it right? I wonder if that had an o-ring on it, maybe well it threads on the on the body.

So if that goes up and runs into where those you can't see it, but down inside here it looks something like that all over again with it with the two notches on each side. So if that's run in there, so that's gon na meter. How much goes up the idle circuit right, which my guess is gon na? Be these holes right here, which i blew through? Those are all clear. None of those had an issue, but i wonder if it's supposed to have an o-ring on it that deteriorated a long time ago and caused it to uh not draw like.

I should i'm going to study how those two go together and uh see if i can come to the conclusion that maybe an o-ring sits right there, so the other part was the float was flooding over. So, while we're in here, let's go clean up that sea area so down inside there that needle pinches off the fuel and unfortunately, usually it's the end of the needle itself - that i don't even call the material that's on it depends how old it is. I guess we'll call it the nitrile tip that gets hard over time. Stop it and it just does not make a good seal to the hole lock it off all right.

So i'm gon na go look under the scope, real good on that see. If there's anything cleaning up, i'm gon na try cleaning up the edges. Sometimes it'll hang up on the edges of the needle this one's a pain get out of there. I am seeing a little bit of corrosion up around the upper section of it, and so, if any of these flanks, these are the edges that rub and the fuel goes by in the flat spots.
The fuel runs by in the flat, and these little side supports, are what keep it centered in the hole. So i'm gon na go clean them off, make sure that they're not causing any issue to and then whatever we can do for that, we'll just try one more time. I guess so put back together and i put the uh mixture screw in ran it all the way in so fluid can't go out of there, i'm going to go where the jet is and it drips out the bottom. So the passage is good going through the carbon coming out of there and the the jet is in there.

So we know that part of it's good, whether or not the uh o-ring question is still out there. I'll do my best to go. Get this clear that again too, we'll throw it back on or give it another shot see we get. I see second time's, the charm turn the gas on keep an eye on it.

If it doesn't seal this time, then it's definitely that uh. That nitrile is just so rock hard that it's not sealing off. Generally, i take them all. They stick them in an ultrasonic cleaner.

It's looking a little wet there yeah there. It goes that top co2 is pretty petrified. Also, it's not helping things, but the level should only be about right about there. It shouldn't be all the way up to the top of there and relying on that seal all right.

Let's go fire it up against you. We get seems to fire with the choke on. So let's give her choke. That's got it! I'm going to run that in so i get a problem, that's idle! So so so the solenoid is causing it so so something's a little out of whack with the solenoid part of it it'll run it'll idle idle circuit is working.

It's just that it's hunting, it seems like it possibly is either turning it when the magnet's on. I wonder if um i need to looks like it's rubbing, it's been rubbing and rub marks back there focused and that's causing issues. I also don't like this linkage to the slot. That's in here usually that stuff's pretty tidy not flopping around, like that.

I'm not gon na go change any of that, but sometimes what they do too. They run a thin spring over the top of it to get rid of the slop who knows, but it'll run in idle. So we're good with that and that may go away with putting the air cleaner out. I don't think so.

I think there's something wrong with the either the solenoid is turning on and off and allowing the paddle to kind of attract and not attract the knot which rubbing it was just a little bit bent. It looks like that arm's got a little bit of a twist to it and they're rubbing like that. I don't think that would be normal right. Let's give it, we won't tell anybody, let's go, give it just a little bit of a tweak like that problem.
Is i don't think that pad is going to touch flat and we need to take that and kind of bend that this way, so it touches the magnet right on right on hard to say that's adjustable too. You can run the the whole thing forward and back a little, but it should be great with the idle stop, isn't it they seem like they're hitting about the same time. What i'm talking about is the idle screw, the idle stop screw, which is this one right here. That's what you set for idle right there you adjust that one to be where we want the idle to be, and it seems like yeah they're, both kind of hitting at the same time, let's try it again after we bent that stuff.

We want engine on and we wanted to start, which is not going to the idle part of it. No choke yeah. We need chuck better uh, so it's better, it just seems like the magnet is either not strong enough. So inside here is your governor.

The governor has a spring tension on it and it wants to always pull back when it doesn't see enough throttle. It goes to raise the throttle. One doesn't have enough, it goes vice versa. It maintains an rpm.

Is it's up? It's gold. It doesn't care how much of a load is put on it. Its goal is to try to maintain 3 600 rpm at an idle uh, there's more fight because it internally. This still wants to try to bring the rpms up to that other amount and you're supposed to the magnet's supposed to be able to overcome it, and then the spring is the give that's in that circuit.

So it is either just got a little too much spring force on it for the magnet to try to overcome when it goes all the way down to an idle. That's why i tried running the idle speed in i want to see if it would improve, seemed like it just did almost the same thing just at a different rpm, so either electrically we're just not quite getting it well, that's that again that magnet is strong enough To uh draw that pad up, i do believe, that's a magnet right all right, we're not going to concern ourselves that much with it we do know it does the same. We'll also wait for the air cleaner to go back on, unfortunately, between the seal and the float ball and the seal. I think that both of them need some love.

So then this is a machine. You definitely have to shut the fuel off to use afterwards uh. What do you want to do next? I pop the air cleaner assembly back on. Let's go see if that makes any difference.

I hit the wrong one. Let's try that again. Why is he dying altogether, so so so so so, okay, it's slowly fixing itself! I was trying to see if it would make a difference like i said, who knows what the magnet is introducing into put a meter on it, but it seems like it's going away. I also want to see if the air cleaner made a difference.

It didn't seem like it was, i think it's gon na do it huh, so that was under a load had the heat gun on it, and it was right at just 120 volts right around there. So i think the frequency and the uh voltage that it puts out seems to be fine. We can do 240. I don't have anything to plug in that's 240 right now, though other than going across it with a meter, but i'm not the concerned.
It was put away as a operating machine. I think most of it was just the carburetor still. My opinion is doubtful that all that damage happened after the oil was put in again. Who knows we? I don't have the backstory to be able to go back then and look at what it looked like when it was put away and i'm sure it wasn't new, like i said it, it's hard to uh surmise, i'm saying it was put away running though so i Did get somewhat worse over the fact that the ports got clogged and even the idle circuit after we cleaned it, the idle circuit didn't even come back the first time it took us the second time to go around what's happening with that hunting.

I don't know it's slowly, fixing itself, i don't know what uh else is in that circuit, that energizes that, and maybe it gets a little bit more power. I just don't know you guys can throw your comments in down below whatever you feel is going on. I don't know how much further we're going to go. I'm not going to bother cleaning the gas tank right now! Uh, i'm probably going to go.

Do it when i have a tumbler kind of set up to go swish it around, but it's a good surviving unit. It needs a carb kit. Really, let's go see how that's doing i don't think it's gon na be pouring out, but i definitely gon na need to shut the fuel off when you're not using it. So behind there's the football is that fixing itself too.

It's dry again, i don't know if i want to leave it and it's dry right now. The vibrations probably help settle as it's running all the vibration, the needles probably re-seating itself up in the seat, i'm shaking good little machine, it's funny, because the there's like a war with who can make the most power out of something and it was happening with garden Tractors too, and they were all lying. I think it was sears that was they kept saying the horsepower went from. I think it was like they're, 16 horsepower, 18 horsepower and 20 horsepower.

I think we're all the exact same engine with the exact same 16 horsepower. They were just lying about what it had and generators. I think kind of got that way too. They would start saying huh turn that fan off yeah generators were kind of the same way too.

They started each running their numbers up higher and higher it'd. Be the same, eight horsepower engine on it, but it would be a first be like a 4000. Then it would be a five. Then it would be a 55 that would be a 55 with a 75 uh.

You know spike on it max spike on it. It was all the same thing, so those even if they made that output the what this is. What i found just my opinion, the newer stuff, the newer, cheaper stuff. It seems like if you try running them.
They say, if you have say 6000 or 7500 and you're running, say on a 75 you're running 6000 watts. It seems like if you try running it close to what its max is. They don't last very long. It seems like the windings, get really hot and burn out these older machines.

I can't speak for this one personally, but it seems like the older machines, the stuff that was built in like the late 70s 70s 80s, that they would whatever they're rated at like you. Could run this thing at 38 or 4 000. and it seemed like it would run all the time you wouldn't have a problem. They wouldn't be burning up, like the modern ones.

Do again, it's just my opinion on stuff. It's just built so much better. If i was to put a modern one next to this, a modern, you know offshore one, you can see the cheesiness compared to how this one's built with the you know: rubber garments around the tank and everything's metal on it. Low oil shut off a little oil shut off, has a plug on the side, and essentially, once the oil level gets down below a certain amount, it kills the spark and shuts the spark off.

So it doesn't stay running this one actually has a light. It looks like that'll come on, while it's trying to go to that letting you know that. That's what it's shutting off for uh real problem with generators? Is people run them they'll, just keep putting gas and putting gas in them and they'll be running for three or four days straight and the oil there's not that much oil on them to begin with we'll get down to a certain point and all of a sudden You hear the thing in the yard just knocking away or just sees this right up and you come out and it's dead. So that's what they're on there, for they do pretty good uh, some of the modern ones it seems like the switches will fail.

Even if you have oil in them, or you got to make sure that it is full, even though it has like a stick or something where was it on this one yeah, i have a stick on it. It seems like they'll need to be able to be filled. I'll show you that old engine is this way. It's got to be filled almost like right level, with the threads kind of like how this one is right here not down on his deck.

You'll look, they'll, say yeah, it's halfway up on a stick and that low oil will be shutting off. It seems like they're, you know, rightfully so on the more cautious to having more in them so baton. I had one i loaned it out and i gave me everything gave him extra oil. They went and parked it on a hill.

He moved it. I had it all, set up powered power's out for seven days that time and he cost me back the generator's dead. I don't know what happened to it because you checked the oil on it uh my son and i because yeah and i come over. They moved it away from the house on a hill, and it was like this on a real, sharp angle and it was like you can't do that.
That's exactly what it was. It had no oil shut off and it took a rod and knocked it. Uh blew itself right up, so no good deegas unpunished. Right.

I still don't know what that's for what do you think? Possibly, electric start it was like they set it up to be the the spike wire going down. I don't know it goes into the harness i'll see the other place for it to plug into guys. I think that's it. I think we're gon na go call them on this.

One. We're gon na have a little fun just go see what they are. Thank george for uh hooking us up with them. We still have some other machines to go look at um, but i think carpet.

It really fought me more than what i thought it would and uh good. It would be boring video if it if nothing went wrong. Everything as far as the power and the rpms and all that seems to be absolutely fine, though that lasted 20 years sitting in the shed without any issues, all right guys, i'm humbling i'll, see you soon in the next one. Take care bye, let's just heat, that oil dirtied up, sometimes the oil, all the sludge will come out of the oil and settle, especially in sitting so long.

Let's just go wipe that off go in and get ourselves a little urine sample. That's pretty good! Let's put away with clean oil, let's eat that stuff in the bottom of the tank, we'll just scrape away. If it's really kind of cruddy on there it'll scrape away it looks pretty clean underneath it, my guess, is uh i'll, probably take the carb cleaner that i use in the ultrasonic cleaner, maybe we'll just let that soak in there and hopefully it'll yeah, hopefully it'll break Up the crud, that's in the bottom of that looks like it stops. You see the color difference on the side wall.

There then up on that higher level up there, that all looks pretty good, not too bad, and i found out where the wire goes to ground. For the gas tank that makes sense.

By Mustie

14 thoughts on “Portable generator, stored with marvel mystery oil will it run?”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Book 'Em Dano says:

    Is it possible that when the solenoid is cold it doesn't have enough resistance to keep the right charge going to the magnet, then as it heats up the resistance builds and the charge evens it out?

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ToughAncientSpark says:

    I put 1 ounce Sta-Bil and a splash of isopropyl alcohol (dry gas) in my 2.5 gallon gas container every time that I fill the container up at the gas station. This way everytime that I fill up the lawn mowers or snowblower, I don't have to think about leaving the gas in the tank or not.
    In 18 years of using this method, I've never drained the carb, ran the gas out at the end of the season or had to clean any carbs. My snowblower and mowers run fine and never had to service the fuel systems.๐Ÿ˜

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Fon Hollohan says:

    Unfortunately I have to take pain meds due to a chronic injury and it causes me confusion sometimes but Daren why didn't you put the carb in the ultrasonic tank? that is what you normally do! in these circumstances isn't it? obtw I had a gut feeling the longer it ran it would straighten out its own issues.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars twocvbloke says:

    The surging and hunting are very reminiscent of my generator I dubbed POSgen, though in its' case it was an under-sized carburettor I'd stuck on it (as it came without one, cos spares/repairs), so would never get enough fuel no matter what I did until I upgraded it to a bigger carb… ๐Ÿ˜›

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Adams Adventures says:

    I'd go with fogging oil when storing for long periods and then empty any remaining fuel, disassemble the carb and give it and the fuel tank (if it's made out of metal) a light coating of any kind of motor oil or two stroke oil. The next best preventive treatment is to keep it stored in a place with minimal tempature swings or otherwise away from moisture as much as possible

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Roger says:

    An emergency generator isnโ€™t something you operate until you really need it. A 20 year old generator โ€œmightโ€ be like new if there is no power outagesโ€ฆbut โ€œcorn gasโ€ ruined thatโ€ฆ.we truly live in a throw away society. What we really need is a Mustie1 or 2.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Eugene Back Yard Repair says:

    Here's Eugene's back yard repair tip for tjoes jet passages. To clean them.out without poking wire through them is heat. A torch will sometimes cause that shellac to turn back to liquid and run out. I did it on a honda 3 wheeler because passages were too small for a wire to go through without bending.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Railfan 51 says:

    You know I thought you had one of those special drill starters that way once you took the housing off the starter rope then you can use one of those specialized bits that I've seen others using instead of the pull rope method they use the drill method which seems to work really well in situations like that trying to start some thing and getting exhausted because you're pulling so hard on it when you could just spin it around with a drill and it would work just like a starter on the vehicle does I think from now on you should be doing something like that using the drill that is so that way it doesn't tire you out having to pull all the time just thought I'd put my two cents inโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธ

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars J Ballew says:

    Most of that pattern of Homelite I dealt with had flathead Briggs engines. Never seen one with a Teledyne. That engine I've usually seen on small military gensets . Wonder if it was a model meant to use up excess contract engines?

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars sewing1243 says:

    Question for Mustie1

    Just before you and the Mrs came down with the Wuhan Flu you had started on the VW police car. Will you be getting back to that project and will there be video?

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars VetteKid says:

    The unit was new around 1990 so I imagine it had some use before it was put away and if the fuel used had a little water in it you get some corrosion like that in the bowel. I had one like yours that my ex wife got in the divorce along with the house.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ร‰lectro-Bidouilleur says:

    My experience with today's AC generators is that their announced wattage rating is way overrated. At the rated output, the voltage will drop a lot, like to 105 V, which renders them useless in that state. Derate, derate, derate!

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert Thomas says:

    Marvel Mystery Oil. The mystery is – what is it good for? LOL.
    I have an early 1980s Scott maintainer arc welder. 16 HP Briggs. So it's about 40 years old. I always run it out of gas when I put it away. She starts right up even today. No problem. No gas, no problem. I've done the same thing with my Billy Goat vacuum (1994), snow blowers (1999), shredder (1985). I leave the rider mower as it is because it has a solenoid to cut the gas off to the carb when the key is turned. I've never had a problem. Anything I store I store empty. Change the oil every once in a while. Add a bit of Militech-1 to it.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Frederick Sweet says:

    had that same model. Although it was not labeled as a homelite. The magnetic solenoids are prone to failure. As far as 20 years with MMO I would have been hesitant on it due to the natural acidic nature of it.

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