cold starting tips after storage

SP01715 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 10:12 AM

If it's an electric pump the bowls will fill when turned on. Fuel evaporation depends on temperature. I leave an offroad vehicle in my garage in Arizona during the summer, and the carb is dry in two weeks. I have to manually fill the bowl because it has a manual pump. I also crank the motor until I get oil pressure before I start it.

HI Cobra · #2 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 01:15 PM

If I haven't driven mine in a while I leave the electric fuel pump off and crank
until I get oil pressure. Then I turn on the electric fuel pump and wait until
the system is pressurized then engage the starter and it starts up shortly there
after.

khansmith · #3 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by SP01715

If it's an electric pump the bowls will fill when turned on. Fuel evaporation depends on temperature. I leave an offroad vehicle in my garage in Arizona during the summer, and the carb is dry in two weeks. I have to manually fill the bowl because it has a manual pump. I also crank the motor until I get oil pressure before I start it.

What is the best way to manually fill the bowls?

SP01715 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by khansmith

What is the best way to manually fill the bowls?

I remove the fuel line into the carb and use a battery filler to pump fuel into the bowls.

DAVID GAGNARD · #5 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by khansmith

What is the best way to manually fill the bowls?

Take a quart bottle like the ones you get rear end oil in or just any quart plastic oil bottle with the cap that you cut the tip off...... fill half full with gas and put the top on and use a length (10 inches or so will do) small clear plasitc tubing attached to t he top and fill the bowls thru the vent tubes,only takes a few seconds and works like a charm.............

David