CHECK YOUR FUEL FILTER!!! My 18/6 has issues because there is crap in my tank- I have cleaned it twice, still has crap in it-
If you don't have a clear filter, get one... Mount it close to the carb, and when it starts to die watch the fuel filter to see if it sucks up a bunch of crap and gets clogged. Thats what happened to by 18/6- filter would clog up, carb would run out of gas, motor would shut off, crap would float back to the tank... crank it over, gas would flow though the filter filling the bowl, run fine, and it would run for like 3-5 minutes and die again... It took me several hours to figure out what was happening because the crap would float back to the tank every time the tractor shut off.
what I ended up doing to fix it was run it till it started to bog and die, quickly shut it off, and yank the filter out before the gas drained back to the tank- shake the crud out of filter, reinstall, and go till it happenened again... Took 4 or 5 times to get it pretty clean, but that is the first thing i look at now.
If you don't have a clear filter, get one... Mount it close to the carb, and when it starts to die watch the fuel filter to see if it sucks up a bunch of crap and gets clogged. Thats what happened to by 18/6- filter would clog up, carb would run out of gas, motor would shut off, crap would float back to the tank... crank it over, gas would flow though the filter filling the bowl, run fine, and it would run for like 3-5 minutes and die again... It took me several hours to figure out what was happening because the crap would float back to the tank every time the tractor shut off.
what I ended up doing to fix it was run it till it started to bog and die, quickly shut it off, and yank the filter out before the gas drained back to the tank- shake the crud out of filter, reinstall, and go till it happenened again... Took 4 or 5 times to get it pretty clean, but that is the first thing i look at now.
