Posted by M Leberman on July 23, 2009 at 19:38:15 from (24.181.92.146):
Hi all, I have a major problem and I was wondering if any of you might think of something that I have not. This summer my super A has had junk in the carb. The engine has never given me any problem for years and I take good care of her. I put an inline gas filter, changed the cork in the sediment bowl and was going to take the carb apart and blow out the passages. Unfortunately I did not just do that first. Between bad weather and work (and a new baby) I had to doing cultivating. I ran the choke partway on to keep the engine running. I knew it was not good for it and I would only run it short times. I had the bright idea of trying one of the gas additive carb cleaners. I put it in, fired her up drove across the field and shut her down to arrange the cultivators and went to start her up again and she was locked up. I thought it was the solenoid at first and tinkered with that for awhile. It finally occurred to me to use the hand crank and when I tried I could not budge the crank so I knew the score. As it stands now I put a bit of diesel fuel in each cylinder to see if I can free them up. I will move to marvel mystery oil tomorrow when I can get to the store. I worked on her till sundown tonight. What I figure happened was it was already running hotter than norm and less oil because of the choke being on and the carb cleaner ran her hotter and she froze soon as I shut her down. What do you guys think? I had hoped it was a hung starter but using a light hammer on the starter did nothing. It was not running long when I shut it down. 5 mins maybe. What are my chances of freeing it up over a week or so? The plan is if I can free her up, tow her back to the barn and do the carb overhaul and drain out the crap carb cleaner. Also what long term damage am I looking at if I can get it un froze? Any thoughts or guidance would be appreciated.
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