8N starts but won't run

Forget the cause of the stuck float for a minute...If you had good flow to the carb, with a stuck open float, it would take a lot less than a few minutes to have gas pouring outta the carb.

Sounds to me like a couple things are wrong. 1.) Your carb needs to be cleaned/rebuilt. 2.) Clean all 3 of your fuel screens...The one in the tank, & the other two at the carb. 3.) Like Soundguy says, the problem could be electrical. Have you checked anything (ignition switch, points, coil) with a multi-tester yet ?

You're kinda sparse with info, but I'm gonna bet on crap in your tank, fuel screens & carb. Let us know how you make out.

Gas shouldn't run out of the carb.. if it does it sounds like a float problem.. or trash under the needle.. not letting the gas shutoff.

That may be part of your problem.

Sounds like a carb cleaning is in your future. At least then you could rule that out.

There are other time related failures.. not sure where 10 seconds falls.. but Dell would know.... Might not be long enough time for a bad capacitor to do it.. but I'll leave that to Dell to comment on.

Soundguy

Thanks

Soundguy