[mtelliott]

I had trouble with mine this year. Got some excellent advice from the board and this is what I found.

There is a float bowl. Take the cover off the float bowl. If you have fuel in the float bowl, then you have a problem elsewhere. If there is no fuel in the float bowl, then you have a blockage going from the gas tank into the float bowl.

You will need to remove the little plastic pin that lets fuel into the bowl. The pin is connected to the float. Pushing up shuts it off, pulling down opens it up. Pull the pin, open the fuel valve, and spray carb / choke cleaner into the spot where the plastic pin enters until you can hear it entering the gas tank. This is the first likely spot where the fuel is getting clogged.

Now, if you have fuel in the float bowl when you take it off, you probably have blockage between the bowl and the carb. I doubt this though since you mentioned that you ran it out of gas last season. That's why it seams to point to the fact that you didn't drain the float bowl and you had gas residue left in there which then turned to varnish.

If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas from this end.

Michael