Engine cutting out and stalling

[Clois Harlan]

I have a friend that just bought a brand new engine from Keith Craft to go with his new Backdraft that he received last spring. Same problem in fact he had been stranded a couple of times.

After checking everything under the sun it was revealed that when his gas tank was delivered to Backdraft it still had plastic shavings in it. Those fine shavings made their way past all the filters and lodged in the needle and seats. Keith Craft sent him a brand new carb once we determined the problem.

Another thing to check is your accelerator pump on your carb. I have had that happen as well but it was usually on an older carb that had been ran quite a while. Rick Lake knows his stuff and has been down this road many more times than me as have several others. I recently had to replace my distributor cap and coil because they were fouled from arching.