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[snopro]

Trying to get my older water truck to start but don’t think it’s getting fuel. Been sitting for a year in a steel Quonset. Crank and crank away but she won’t bark. Any ideas Troy?

 

[snopro]

Lunch posty

 

[TROLLCAT]

Trying to get my older water truck to start but don’t think it’s getting fuel. Been sitting for a year in a steel Quonset. Crank and crank away but she won’t bark. Any ideas Troy?

gas or diesel

 

[ferniesnow]

Trying to get my older water truck to start but don’t think it’s getting fuel. Been sitting for a year in a steel Quonset. Crank and crank away but she won’t bark. Any ideas Troy?

I'm not as knowledgeable as Troy but have you tried taking off the air filter and putting some fresh gas into the carb?

 

[TROLLCAT]

I'm not as knowledgeable as Troy but have you tried taking off the air filter and putting some fresh gas into the carb?

not to many carburetors left out there

 

[ferniesnow]

not to many carburetors left out there

He did say “older water truck” and that led me to thinking. Just the same, I understand what you are saying.

 

[TROLLCAT]

He did say “older water truck” and that led me to thinking. Just the same, I understand what you are saying.

hard to help the guy when he's nappin

 

[TROLLCAT]

weed whacked the ditch line in front of shack

went through a tank of gas, me brush blade is got beat up too rocks and culvert

 

[TROLLCAT]

miss spoked me tree whacked in front of the house

 

[ferniesnow]

hard to help the guy when he's nappin

It appears that the heat is hard on the guy. He doesn’t like the extremes; winter cold and summer heat.

 

[ferniesnow]

miss spoked me tree whacked in front of the house

Maybe not the right tool for the job?

 

[snopro]

gas or diesel

Gas. Ran good when I put it away

 

[snopro]

I'm not as knowledgeable as Troy but have you tried taking off the air filter and putting some fresh gas into the carb?

Yes sir! It runs for a second then chugs to a stop. Did it about 5 times a other same result

 

[snopro]

not to many carburetors left out there

It’s got a carb with auto choke on it

 

[TROLLCAT]

It’s got a carb with auto choke on it

need to figger out if fuel is getting to carb just loose'n fuel line and doo the spash of gas in carb if fuel is present to carb needle and seat is stuck in float bowl

can fill float bowl through vent pipe with a squirt bottle make it run for a minute or 2

a stratiget tap with hammer may get thing working again

 

[snopro]

need to figger out if fuel is getting to carb just loose'n fuel line and doo the spash of gas in carb if fuel is present to carb needle and seat is stuck in float bowl

can fill float bowl through vent pipe with a squirt bottle make it run for a minute or 2

a stratiget tap with hammer may get thing working again

Thanks buddy!

 

[TROLLCAT]

Thanks buddy!

I'll check back about 1/2 hr

 

[TROLLCAT]

5 mins late whats going on

 

[Clode]

Riggs is getting interrogated and shocked by some Asian torture dude

 

[TROLLCAT]

Riggs is getting interrogated and shocked by some Asian torture dude

a sponge bath