Generator been sitting for 6 months, now it wont start. Maybe bad gas. If I drain it and refill with new fuel is there anything else I need to do? Thanks Honda EU3000

6 months --check for spark but probably fuel bad or carb/fuel filter gummed up

choke opens up the jets just a little more to squirt more fuel into the chamber during warm up, meaning YOU NEED TO USE THE CHOKE TO START YOUR BIKE!!!

The bulb pulls fuel from the carb into the bulb and back to the tank, if the bulb does not fill it is because there is a fuel blockage, either in the fuel filter in the tank, or the screen in the carb itself.

Hello John, Your gas more than likely has gone bad. If you have spark and good compression and it won't start then chances are the gas has gone bad. Today's gas contains about 10% ethanol, which is absolutely terrible for small engines. Gas with ethanol has a max shelf life of about 90 days under perfect conditions. A month or less is more realistic. Here is the problem, ethanol absorbs water and sits at the bottom of the tank in the generator. If You have a 5 gallon tank With 10% ethanol then 10% times 5 gallons equals half a gallon of water saturated ethanol sitting at the bottom of the tank, I don't care what kind or how good an engine it is, it won't run on water saturated alcohol. Here is a great video explaining it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeCyFxoWPpo So what I would suggest is to drain the tank and the carburetor bowl of all the old gas. Replace the bowl and check for leaks. While everything is empty I would suggest that you replace the fuel line with a Tygon line. Tygon is resistant to ethanol. I would also ad a see through inline fuel filter and a new spark plug. After this is all done, put in a small amount of gas, less then a half gallon and see if she fires up. If it fires up right away you should be all good to go. Let the generator run until it's completely empty. And store it empty. Here are some problems and solutions that I have for gas with ethanol. I live in Savannah Georgia and the high humidity during the summer can ruin the gas in my lawn tractor in less than 2 weeks due to water saturation. The tractor is almost impossible to start and runs terribly until the remaining gas is used up. I have stopped filling the tank completely and I use just enough gas to cut the lawn then I store the tractor almost empty. I also use gas cans made by a company called Blitz. These containers are pretty much airtight and do not allow the ethanol to absorb water. This has made a tremendous difference in engine performance. Another thing that you can do is to check out this website http://pure-gas.org/ If you are lucky , you might have a gas station that sells gasoline without any ethanol added. This type of gas has a much longer shelf life and if a product like Stabil is added, you might get over a year of safe storage of gas for your generator. Municipal airports have banned ethanol in aviation gas and so have most marina's. It might cost a little more but it sure is worth it when the lights go out. If you can't find pure gas then I suggest you store gas in the Blitz containers for about 3 to 4 months. If you don't need to use the generator then use the gas in your car and refill the Blitz tanks again. Better safe than sorry. I hope this helps and if it does would you please be so kind and give me a positive rating for my solution. Good luck and thank you, Michael Burke.

Start by draining the fuel and cleaning the carb. Modern gas goes stale pretty fast and any gas over 90 days old is risky if you don't add a fuel stabilizer. You can remove the air filter and spray carb cleaner into the carb then try and start it. If it starts and runs for a second then the carb is dirty/plugged.

First check you fuel filter . Bad, old gas can cause the filter to clog. If it is clear, then just drain the gas from the line you already pulled the filter from. Refill the tank with freah gas adding two ounces of sea foam per gallon of gas. If it fires up then it was bad gas and the sea foam will clean out any other **** the bad fuel left behind.

the gas goes bad in one year (this comes from the American institute of petroleum), the fuel injectors are most likely damaged and the electric fuel pump and filter will most likely need to be replaced before it will start. so drain all the fuel put in at least 5 gallons of clean fuel, add one can of BERRYMANS CHEMTOOL and hope for the fuel pump to work and the injectors clean themselves out

is this unit diesel or gas? If its gas driven, the carburetor needs to be removed and cleaned out. Also make sure your gas is fresh. If not drain fuel tank, remove carb, clean out, re-assemble & test. Check fuel filter, oil level.

All generators need to be run once a month. All things from the tank to the and including the carb will get gummed up with dried out fuel. I have a whole house generator and a 5500 watt gen set on my motor home. I keep fresh fuel in the stand alone house generator in California in case of a bad earthquake. I drain the gas after every run and keep all vehicles full of fuel just in case. Run gen sets at least once a month or pay pay pay!!

Suggest that you read the entries posted under cars/t594234-toyota_lacks_power at this fixya website. 87-90 Toyota Tercels have significant carburetor problems.