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Hi all, Iā€™m a 50+ year old concreter, husband and father. Jumped on here to learn about servicing and maintaining Honda engines as our troweling machines etc. are mostly powered by them and Iā€™m sick of getting ripped off by so called small engine shops.

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Hi Not much goes wrong with those Honda's that an internet carburettor won't fix They get a lot of rust in the float bowl that clogs up the main jet You can clean them out but the rusty bowl will still be there I have had to use the gas welding tip cleaners to unclog the jet but that is not s good idea as it damages the jet slightly . They will usually go afterwards but might run unevenly Only expect to pay about $20 for the new carby Those carbys have a drain plug in the bowl .If we just undid that every once in a while and drain the water out we would have a lot less trouble. Jeff

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Hi Jeff, and if idiots stopped using E10 fuel in these things then many of these problems would be avoided

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Hi Krazypan, JFB and NK,

first, welcome to the board [i]Krazypan[/i], I'm sure you won't be here long if all you have is a Honda OHV unless the equipment it's on gives trouble as well.

A plastic bowl that isn't affected by ethanol would avoid it too.


Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
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not only the bowl MF, it is the diecast body that gets destroyed as well


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