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<blockquote data-quote="Atimm693" data-source="post: 1655019" data-attributes="member: 26138"><p>Floats can stick either way, but if it sticks closed, you will get no gas into the carb. If it sticks open the carb will overflow, and depending on location and design of the carburetor may flood the engine. Those old Briggs flatheads with the bowl type carb were terrible about it, anything with the carb up high.</p><p></p><p>If I have one that's sticking sometimes a few whacks with a screwdriver handle will unstick it.</p><p></p><p>Hondas and their chinese copies that are so popular now have the carb lower than the intake, it is next to impossible for those to flood the engine. It'll just run out of the overflow hose and on the ground.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ethanol actually burns cooler and cleaner than gasoline. If a carburetor is not jetted for ethanol, it will run super lean and hot. Same goes if you put E85 in a car that is not set up for it.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that it takes more of it to do the same amount of work as gas. That's why flex fuel vehicles get 15-25% less fuel economy on E85. The fuel system needs to compensate or it will run lean.</p><p></p><p>The bigger problem I see is that the EPA has meddled so much with these small engines, they are set too lean right from the factory. It has little do with ethanol, it is just a scapegoat. Anything made within the last 15 years is designed to run on it.</p><p></p><p>If water gets in it, or if it sits unused for years, you are going to have problems, ethanol or not.</p><p></p><p>I bought my mower new in 2006. I park it in the shed with ethanol gas every winter, no treatment, every year. I've never had the carb apart, runs just like the day I got it. Same with everything else that I have.</p><p></p><p>I have never seen an E85 pump that didn't have separate hoses, but I haven't seen all that many, there's only a few in my area.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Atimm693, post: 1655019, member: 26138"] Floats can stick either way, but if it sticks closed, you will get no gas into the carb. If it sticks open the carb will overflow, and depending on location and design of the carburetor may flood the engine. Those old Briggs flatheads with the bowl type carb were terrible about it, anything with the carb up high. If I have one that's sticking sometimes a few whacks with a screwdriver handle will unstick it. Hondas and their chinese copies that are so popular now have the carb lower than the intake, it is next to impossible for those to flood the engine. It'll just run out of the overflow hose and on the ground. Ethanol actually burns cooler and cleaner than gasoline. If a carburetor is not jetted for ethanol, it will run super lean and hot. Same goes if you put E85 in a car that is not set up for it. The problem is that it takes more of it to do the same amount of work as gas. That's why flex fuel vehicles get 15-25% less fuel economy on E85. The fuel system needs to compensate or it will run lean. The bigger problem I see is that the EPA has meddled so much with these small engines, they are set too lean right from the factory. It has little do with ethanol, it is just a scapegoat. Anything made within the last 15 years is designed to run on it. If water gets in it, or if it sits unused for years, you are going to have problems, ethanol or not. I bought my mower new in 2006. I park it in the shed with ethanol gas every winter, no treatment, every year. I've never had the carb apart, runs just like the day I got it. Same with everything else that I have. I have never seen an E85 pump that didn't have separate hoses, but I haven't seen all that many, there's only a few in my area. [/QUOTE]
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