BR 400 blower leaking gas like a sieve

[trooper1954]

Whats the best way to get that out Fish? Should I take the machine apart? I thought it had fully dried out after I did the last draining.

 

[Fish]

Whats the best way to get that out Fish? Should I take the machine apart? I thought it had fully dried out after I did the last draining.

Take the plug out and remove all of the fuel, pull the rope many many times, even with the machine upside down, then leave it dry in the sun a while. Then pull some more.

Then put the plug back in when you are sure it is dry, but no fuel. Then pull the rope with the throttle held wide open, and try to get it to hit. You will either have it aired out enough, or getting close. Eventually, it should start and run until the excess fuel is burned off.
If not, keep the fuel out of the tank, as your main goal is to see if it will eventually run then die, then you will know that your problem is fuel/carb related only. Once you do get it to do this, then add some fuel and try to start as normal, it may just run. If it floods again, then you need to go back into the carb, or replace it.
At any rate, it takes a whole lot of drying out one that was badly flooded.

 

[trooper1954]

Thanks Fish.....have done all of the above....emptied the fuel, took the plug out, and pulled the cord 250 times ( yes....I counted) over the course of an hour, and then left the machine upside down in the sun for several hours.
Put the plug back in, no fuel, but the unit will not fire. Can I assume that there now isn't sufficient fuel vapor left to cause it to fire, and proceed with maybe a few drops of gas in the spark plug hole and then re-try?
Thanks

 

[Fish]

Yes, if you are sure that it is totally dried out, put in a squirt, with the tank still empty, and just try to get it to fire. If it does, and runs until the prime is burned off, then you will know that it is all fuel related. If you cannot get it to fire, then you likely have additional problems.
But get it to fire before adding any gas to the tank, just try to get it to fire first.

 

[trooper1954]

Absolutely will not fire with a small syringe of gas put in.....and the pull cord is still jamming really badly every few pulls :-(
Is there a next step, or is this now toast? I'm thinking there's something wrong with the crank.

 

[Fish]

Did it jam while trying to start while drying it out?
Or after you put in a squirt of fuel?

 

[Fish]

I have an old trimmer that gets flooded from time to time. It is a bear to get it dried out again.
If it was indeed totally dried out, and you cannot get it to fire after a light squirt of fuel, then something else must be wrong.

 

[trooper1954]

After I put in the squirt of fuel.....while I was cranking to dry it out with no plug in it pulled fine.....what else could be wrong?

 

[Fish]

I mean, with the plug in, and it pretty much dry. Did it ever yank the cord then. Too much fuel will cause it to happen.

 

[trooper1954]

While I was trying to fire it up after drying, with no fuel in it wasn't yanking.