Powermate coleman 5000 gen. with subaru engine

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Hi,

If I may add....
Offhand and assuming you are leaning to a complete DIY (do-it-yourself), perhaps leave the air adjustment and the idle screws as they are. Without knowing the proper settings, it is possible to compound the problem. The air adjustment would affect the air/fuel mixture making it either lean or rich and in most likelihood further adjustments would not correct the issue. Same goes for the idle adjustment. It has been preset to run the engine at a specific RPM that is to maintain the frequency (Hz/cps) of the gen's output.

The issue seems just one, no fuel getting into the combustion chamber from the carbs. Pls try:

• Verify that the carbs is getting fuel (fresh not the old/stale). Often they have a bleed screw at the bottom for draining the contents of the bowl;
• use a carb/injector cleaner, though the correct procedure would be to overhaul the carb itself;
• choke the throat opening (after removing the air filter and the base plate. Use your palm and cover the throat opening while starting/cranking. If your palm gets wet with fuel, then fuel is now entering, if not, then any of the jets are clogged. Spray again with cleaner to melt the gummed ups old gas residue;
• continuously do the palm choking until fresh clean gas is drawn.

The is mixture screws on the carb u have to have the fuel and air ratio perfect the best thing to do is screw the fuel in so its not getting to much but make sure not to little and the air out so it breathes then try to start it if it goes it will run ruff wait till it warms up and then adjust again
also i want you to check if the fuel lines are not blocked from sitting to long and the filter is free of dirt and not blocked
now here is a carby same as yours nearly but same set up look at the left of the carb see the first screw on a diagonal now the one behind that is what you want to adjust in and try bit by bit then if no good out and try again repeat if no go give me a yell back http://www.chads-minitruck-parts.com/subaru%20carb.JPG

Yes that could definitely be a problem. Do you still have the manual for it? Also is the unit still under warranty?
Thanks,
Lee

The dirt in the gas settled onto the bottom, try mixing it up or putting some fresh gas in and taking the old out and let me know how that works