Busch light, what Brian drinks, is mostly water anyways. Maybe eatonpcat should switch to whiskey or bourbon? You could try tequila if you want.
Next GTG we are at together...I need you to drink the water can for can with me, see if you think they put alcohol in it.
It might be possible you bought E 85 by mistake last time. If the carburetor has some junk in it, that and/or the E85 could cause it to be lean enough to where one side wouldn’t fire. Don’t make that mistake with chainsaws, just saying. Some call it snake oil, but I’ve had great luck with Seafoam in a half dozen Honda small engines
Tanks at the station can get water in them also. It is possible to get bad gas! I mean tanks at station are just bigger versions of your 5 gallon gas tanks. This state requires they get pulled up and inspected every 25 years.
I'm having the opposite problem with my mower today. It will run/cut fine for 2-3 minutes then act like it is starving. I've made sure the tanks are venting and cleaned the carb which had no signs of contamination whatsoever. It did this a couple weeks ago and thought I had it narrowed down to a fuel pump because the bulb filter was empty, but it's doing the same thing. I guess I'm going to throw some fuel treatment and a new filter at it. Any other ideas? I'm 99% confident it is a fuel delivery issue. I've had a bad coil on it before and this is different.
Collapsing fuel line? Or something in the tank getting sucked up, then after sitting it drains back into the tank and allows flow again for a bit? We had a diesel Ventrac that did that...for some reason the wasps like to build a nest in the diesel tank nozzle and someone forgot to check it before refueling, all of a sudden it "ran out of fuel"...turned out the primer bulb was sucked FLAT! Ended up that a wasp/bee was sucked into the end of the pickup line! What type of fuel pump does it have...electric, mechanical, vacuum/pulse?
The fuel filter is the original one and a $4 part so I figured no harm in replacing it. I put the filter on and my son is out there mowing now. The supply line was pretty dry rotted so I trimmed it down some. I wonder if it wasn't drawing in air at the filter connection. We'll see how it goes. I thought collapsed line but it looks OK...I would probably have to catch is when it is running to really tell though.
