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Old 12-06-2010, 08:59 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
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Default petrol lawn mower wont start help!

*Mechanic* wrote:

With everything aasembled as it should be, take the petrol tank cap off
and wrap your hands around the neck of the tank where the cap screws on.
Place your cheeks on to your hands to form a seal and blow as hard as
you can in to the petrol tank. This will pressurise the fuel system and
"should" dislodge any blockage.




That is just plain bad advice and won't do any good at all. If it's a
float/needle style carb then you'd have to be able to blow over 7lb of
pressure to get anymore fuel in the bowl and I can't see how that's
going to dislodge any blockage in a jet since the float bowl is vented.

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