I'm sure many of people know but if you don't, turn off the gas while the engine is running and let it die. Gets the gas out of carb and helps prevent many of the issues that mustie1 is so good at fixing.

Hey Mustie. I have been quietly following your videos for a while, but I just wanted to thank you for the clear, relaxed videos. I just bought a 1985 Honda V65 that has been sitting for years. I would not have the confidence to take on this project or do other motorcycle and small engine repairs without your videos. Again, thank you.

I always learn a trick or two from your videos. When you fixed the garden tractor hydrostatic transmission a few weeks ago it reminded me to check the oil in my tractor transmission. When I added some oil it stopped slipping. Your trick with the small screwdriver helped me get the rubber plug out of the top of the tranny. Thanks.

You my friend have mastered the art of "make it run" once again. Your skills are above what we see today in engine repair. Congratulations on a job well done!

Down Cape May NJ holiday weekend Mustie rang, we watch, while family still sleeping, all those little carb parts would be all over the floor, never would figure out how to put it all back, your a legend Mustie, have a great holiday

I really love "Will it run?" episodes. Thanks for making them!

Hi from Australia . I enjoy your videos very much My 8 kva Chinese generator seized while running . Strip down showed the valve guide had broken up and jammed the piston . Piston was found to be ok after I stripped the engine down . $30 for a new head and gasket it has been running fine for the last 3 years . People told me I should have bought a Honda at 10 times the cost but my el cheapo 6 year old generator is fine in my workshop running all my power tools including my welders ..

While i´m watching your videos, it made me realize that searching for other videos depicting the problem i want solved in my particular engine is useless, i better just watch all of your videos, it is a much more better learning experience. it has helped me many times. A deeply thank you!!!

Nice job, after 60 years of doing this kind of stuff I'm still learning. Patience, Diligence, Perseverance, Your one hell of a guy. Now you needs a 150X100 Pole building with a three bedroom house on the roof !! :-) :-). Enjoy you videos very calming...

Love your channel. I picked up a great 1968 eska golden jet 5hp outboard engine. Took me 4 hours of 10 year hibernation maintenance and $33 total including the engine. Good little outboard.😎

Many thanks for your many videos. It takes me back over 60, ears, when as a 7 year old, I use to inquire what my Dad was doing in h if s workshop. He was not formally trained, but could do everything. He had alsorts of pullers to take off magneto, to get to points. I remember the screw in pullers of assorted sixes, he had made himself. He I often worked on B & S, Villiers and Anzani engines. He use to rebuild Howard Bantam rotlvators. I vividly remember the parts washer. In those days a tin with paraffin (kerosine) and a small brush. Thank you for bri ging my childhood rushing back

Mustie you are one resourceful dude! My younger brother and I would probably hang out with you way too often wrenching on stuff like this and learning the tricks.

Every time I watch your videos, I think to myself "school is in session." You teach, I learn.

thank you for this video, you just saved me a new chipper. My chipper was frozen after hurricane Irma and Maria , I didn't know what to do and was about to chunk it in the trash pile and buy another one, I followed your instructions and it freed the piston and I think it will sart when I try it. thanks once again for the secret.

Your neighbor is lucky you're his neighbor. Quite a lot of work you did, all said and done. Thanks for sharing!

Great job, great repair, as usual. I really enjoy all of your videos. Your gift and talent amazes and inspires me to never give up on any machinery. You really work miracles....

The o-ring on the plastic pilot (idle) jet should be inspected or replaced when the carburetor is serviced. If the o-ring is falling apart it will run rich and drive you crazy trying to troubleshoot. I replace these all the time on Honda HS series snowblowers. I also remember to remove all rubber gaskets before it goes into the ultrasonic cleaner. I've learned the swollen rubber lesson a few times! Honda PE certified technician.

I just realized, since watching Mustie over the past few years I am no longer guilty of the sometimes 5, 10, or 30 years goes issue by anymore. Oh, I was guilty in the past. Thanks for showing me how to unseize a motor that seized while sitting. Had a riding mower do that to me and I did not know what to about it so I pretty much gave it away. Never again.

Great video! I laughed when you were talking about having a clean hole. I also love the little extra bits of video at the end. Great looking yard art of the model A pickup and the car show.

Hi Mustie got a Robin EH25 that was soaked in water. Stripped it down and washed out completely, honed cylinder and put together. Had to make all the gaskets. Got it running but wont idle. Will have to do a carb clean. You wont believe how much gunk came out of it. Your videos have been a great help.

Excellent video. I had a similar issue with one in my shop surging, finally took out the black idle/throttle screw on top of the carb and increased the size of the little jet to the next size with a miniature drill bit, and it worked great. EPA is trying to run small engines a little to lean. Thanks for the great video's.

These generator videos are super helpful with learning how to fix engines

Fantastic Video Mustie. :) reminds me of the days when i worked on lawn mowers back in the '70's........ However, your very in depth video on 4 stroke engines brought back memories too. 1 year?, 5 years, 15 years? LOL.....how true Thankyou for sharing this, and i share it too. Thumbs UP!

Hey Mustie1. I’m truly a fan. Just now beginning to fix stuff on my own and i can say i really only watch two of you (donyboy73 and you). You guys have shown me how “I can do it”. One of your videos cuts to a boat ride on Lake Winnipasauke and another you referred to going for a motorcycle ride and when NH registrations are due. (And your truck has NH plates). Being from NH myself i am even more intrigued to watch. Keep up the great work

Definitely been standing for more than a year. Nicely done bud.

I really enjoy all your video's particularly the generator one's. That might be a little boring for you but I think they're interesting . Never had a problem with your'e lighting and sound is good. Been watching you for some time and long may you continue. Very best wishes to you and your family...

Good fix and good video. Years ago I used to use a 2 part epoxy coating on the inside of, mostly, motorcycle tanks that had gotten rusty. You had to mix the 2 parts, pour it in the tank, then rotate the tank for a while to get the coating all around and let it set up. As I remember, it wasn't that expensive.

Thanks for another video. I noticed my predator gen hunted to this spring when I first got it, but started it yesterday for its quarterly run and it ran fine. It liked the warm weather. TIP: I got tired of switching tips on my air nozzle and swiped the inflator off of one of those disposable helium tanks. Works great for blowing out passages. It threads right on to a quick connect and has a nice variable air flow.

Just before you started it, I said OIL? Right then you said "Yes I added oil" felt like I was right there buggin' you. COOL

5 years go by - -10 years go by - - 30 years go by - - I feel like I'm having breakfast every ten minutes!

thanks to your videos on generators, i took a gamble with a $100 on a 5k watt gen that wouldnt start, was told it ran the last time. long story short is the fuel tank and carb are very clean but the oil pressure sensor didnt let it send spark. oil level is good, disconected it, starts right up 😎😎 thanks for your great videos and explaining with detail what your doing!!!

Good video, lots of valuable information and neat tricks of the trade. Many videos waste our time with people who think they are the most important part of the program. Not Mustie, he's all business and get right to the project at hand with excellent camera work. Many thanks. 5 Star rating!

Excellent work, Mustie1. Thank you for the video. Being that gasoline is a ultra light oil- that flood condition saved the crankcase internals. That heated ultrasonic parts cleaner continues to save the day, and is perfect for situations like this. ATF is the #1 choice for freeing a seized engine or electric motor.

I bought a HF 8750W generator and although it’s made in China, it starts on the first pull & ran for 12 hours straight (as spec’d in the manual) during one of this past NE winter storms. When I put it away in the garage, I first drained the tank, then drained the bowl & put the drain screw inside the tank fuel strainer so I don’t forget to put it back in the next time I need it. The theory is to leave the screw out so all of the gas can evaporate and no water can condense in there, causing a blockage.

I've got a pulsar 3200 and i drain the gas out while not in use, it's the only genset I've got to run my camper off of, I was told to drain the fuel out if not in use for some time. Very useful information great video! I certainly appreciate it

I enjoy all your videos! Especially the old outboard motors. Great job. This one was very helpful!

Back in high school my friend and I would buy cars that were sitting in folks yards, fix them up and sell them... Often we would find an engine with the same issue, my fix was to fill the cylinders with Marvel Mystery Oil, let it sit for a day, then hit the crank bolt with a breaker bar... Never had it fail :)

I was a generator mechanic in the army so I know a lot about those things I would have taken the gas tank off first thing so I could get to the govinor easily and everything else .

Thank you again for posting this awesome video to show step by step to get her going again .. and bringing us along bud ! . I love your videos step by step, its fun to watch and learn from you.

Thank you for explaining how gas gets into the oil. I've had this happen on two Ryobi engines- one is a power washer, and the other is my Ryobi inverter generator. In the power washer, the air filter was completely soaked with what appeared to be gas and maybe oil, and in both cases, the engine actually seized up while running. I fixed both the generator and power washer by draining all of the oil and changing it and both engines seem to have fixed themselves & they both work great now. I also now make sure to run the engines periodically just to make sure it works fine, as well as shut off the fuel on the power washer (generator doesn't have a specific fuel shut off, but I think the "stop" position on the only control they give you does shut off fuel). I thought it had to do something with the crankcase breather tube, but the idea that gas draining from the carb into the cylinder and into the crankcase seems to make more sense. And in the case of the power washer, the gas probably did make its way from the carb down into the air filter, so bad carburetor to some degree seems logical. I'm lucky more damage wasn't done and that simply changing the oil was all it took.

New to commenting on vids! Love your vids kinda caught up on all you have made. very good stuff.. Great job.. Thanxs again for great stuff..

Great videos. I think everyone needs to learn small engine repair instead of throwing everything away

I was given a generator that I was told was seized. My first instinct was to check the oil. Oil looked new, and was at the proper level. Could not pull the recoil. I removed the recoil.The bolted on cup was too fragile to use a screwdriver. I used an 1/16 deep socket and breaker bar. I pushed down, to my left. I had movement. I took the breaker bar to the right. More movement. I turned a few more right hand circles and installed the recoil. The engine turned over when I pulled on it. I scared up a spark plug and installed it.After setting the choke properly, the motor started on the third pull. The volt meter showed 120 volts. I plugged in my hand sander, and it had power. I plugged in my jigsaw and it worked. A running generator and power output! Gotta love it!

Mustie is definitely the KING of small engine repair! Kudo's to you, my friend!

Tempus Fugit. Just the other day we were talking about when we had installed a certain machine at work and we agreed it had been three years, we looked up the paperwork on the installation...6 years, lol.

Nicely recovered :-D, yes its cheap but it's a shame to let any generator die. Your ultrasonic bath is a handy tool, cleaned that carb a treat :-D

I really enjoy your channel.i have learned so much.you do an awesome job at explaining how and what to do when your fixing stuff.thank you so much

It's Friday night, sitting here on the coast of Central Florida awaiting the arrival of hurricane Dorian.. I dragged out my generator. Perhaps 7 or 8 years old, but never used. As an avid watcher of your channel I felt I was prepared to do battle with whatever ailments this old gal might have in store for me. It is a BlackMax 6560 bought at Sam's. I checked the oil and about 1/8 inch showed on the very tip of the dipstick. I added nearly a quart more and it seemed full. Added half a gallon of gas, switched on, gave her full choke and yanked the cord. She coughed, once, farted once and took off running. The only fix I had to make was removing the wheels, and filling with air - easier than dragging it to garage or dragging compressor to the backyard. Wish us all luck in the coming days. Dorian's track keeps changing - the best would be if she creeps east out over the ocean as she makes her way north toward us.

Some guys get to play all the time. Thanks for letting us watch.

AC Delco... wow there's a name I haven't seen or heard (well, in my country/city) of in many years... I can still recall the adverts on radio / TV with the lyrics (To Chuck Berry's "Riding Along In My Automobile") going... Riding along in my automobile, my baby beside me at the wheel, AC Delco's where its at, for plugs 'n points 'n thermostats... The only place you need to go.. AC Deelcooo" Hahaha great old school ad!

A Friend's "pull start" generator saved my family by allowing us to heat the house after Hurricane Sandy... after that, my home, and my parent's home got a 24HP briggs generator outside that runs on Natural Gas. Love that thing! And I remember to service it every November.

I got an 11 hp honda welder/generator of a guy for a bottle of rum as eight months ago he had taken the carby off of it to fix it but left with the carby off. So for eight-month moisture got into it had seized solid. when I saw this I did the same thing as you did and it seems to have worked I have ordered and other carby off-of eBay only cost 18 dolors but won't know if its qoing to then. Thank you so much for this.

Looks like one of those Huyei carbs. Clone of a Honda. They use those things on most of those Chinese engines. Biggest thing to watch on those carbs is the plastic idle jets. They have an extremely tiny orifice that plugs easy and is hard to clean. Sometimes they will surge and the problem is that low speed jet. I’ve even heard of drilling them out slightly to fix the surge.

Found a disposal point for your bad gas/oil that you don't want to keep around. You may have a Bulk terminal near you (I have several) (big town), and they will take it usually as long as it's gas or oil. They usually have a waste tank for reworking bad gas pumped from the bottom of underground tanks. They have to do this when they get too much condensate water in the tanks. Bad gas goes back to the refinery to be reworked back into fuel.

Been wrenching on my generator all day long so of course I had to watch your video when it came up. Couldn't find the air dust gun so it'll have to wait for tomorrow.

Apart from the wonky tank it came back well with your wrench'n and know how. Nice one bro

I was just looking through old vid waiting for another video 👍👍😂

This Gen looks almost like the HF 3000 watt I have. This is a good reminder video not to leave the gas valve on and leave your fuel untreated or in the tank at all.

One of the things I like about your videos is that you utilize compressed air to clear out your carburetors. I cannot think of a single carburetor that I have worked on and not use my compressor. If a family member or a good friend ask me to come over to their house to look at something for them, I made sure I bring my 10-gallon air can. I enjoy watching your videos. I'm hoping soon as things get back to normal. I cannot even get anyting I normally order before spring kicks in. Most of the vendors I deal with are on eBay and none of them are shipping parts. They're taking orders but not making deliveries quite yet. I don't know about you but I'm surely not going to pay for something when somebody tells me I cannot tell you when you're going to get it. He'll the things I've ordered could fit in an envelope. I like to make sure I'm prepared. I still have a small supply of things but that's for my stuff or family.

Glad you got it running! Sounds like it's running lean at low loads, causing the surging. These carbs have an idle / low-load circuit with a fixed jet. It's very sensitive to anything making it run lean, since they were worried about emissions and made it as lean as possible from the factory. The air filter acts as a choke and helps to enrich it a little. Raising the float level can help a little, as well.

As a kid, we had a neighbor who was always tinkering in the garage. With no kids of his own, he was the favorite of the neighborhood kids. He was 82nd airborne and had jumped into Normandy on D-day. If only I had known what we had there !! But we were too little to appreciate. Except he made us all laugh.

Thank you sir. Love all your videos

I especially like the t shirt. I had a green one like that it was almost clear due to wear. Wife made me get rid of it as it was going to get the washer drain clogged at some point. Started a new collection. So many issues could be corrected with proper maintenance-job security! Thanks Bro love the videos!

A work ethic without thinking about it for helping a neighbor....Bravo.

It's kind of important if you want to run electronics or something motorized off of it to set the RPM close as possible to what it should be. Hook a kill-o-watt or similar to it and make sure you get the hZ as close to 60 as possible by seeing the RPM. Some micrometers have a frequency function too but the kill-o-watt is safer.

Sunday school with Mustie!!! Got the spirit of machanical enlightment flowing this morning !!!!

I never knew how to work on carbs until I started watching your vids, thanks M ustie1

I have no real interest in these things and I know very little about them but it was a pleasure to watch. Really good to see someone who knows their stuff at work :)

Wish I have a neighbor just like you.

Another save by the Mustie1, good job.

Much better shape then the junkyard VW engines I've taken apart, those had water in 'em and I had to pound the pistons out with a big hammer and a block of wood! XD I have a lot of parts that are only good for sculpture. Hopefully some good cases and cranks though! Great resurrection of this cruddy ol genny!

love to watch somebody that knows what there doing, good job dude.

Saved another one from the scrap yard

Thanks for the Vids Mustie1.

Getting a real jafromobile vibe from this video. I love that you have the sound of things racing around in the background.

28:30 I was class of '82 also, but my tassel is long gone, I have no idea where it went. Quite amazed that you have yours still after all this time.

To repair rusty gas tanks I use that eco friendly rust remover and then seal the tanks with "red kote". It's meant for motorcycle gas tanks, but the gas tanks don't care. Just let it cure for a week.

Looks like a “huayi” carb. Pretty available and not a lot of money. Pretty common carb but you probably know that already.

This was a helpfull video. A neighbor had a "locked up" generator in the trash. I picked it up and it had the same problem. It runs!

Your generator videos are my favorite!

Flush the tank, then fill the tank with muriatic acid, do that a couple times, then put some rustoleum rust reformer in it slosh that around, replace the cap. On some engines that idle hunting means your idle is set to low.

I had an issue with my generator which is made by Champion. I believe it's assembled in Canada from Chinese made parts. They were kind enough to send me a new tank and carburetor free of charge.

Hey hey Mustie1, Yup, I figured you had replaced the oil, but were you going to tell us ? 😁 Great video sir. I really appreciate your thorough descriptions and thought processes, like the oil in the muffler. I was wondering what may have been causing the smoke after first getting it started... but you're on top of that. Thanks a bunch. I've got one of these seized up generators out in my shop right now. I've been avoiding it, but now I'm going to get it done and gone.

Thanks for the help! I picked up a generator similar to this a few months ago for $40 as it wasn't running. Went through the same steps as you and it runs fine now! Then I broke the pull cord. Fail. Ha. Thanks again for the help.

Modern fuel is such crap. ALLWAYS drain and run dry. Thanks

The "cold hunting" issue sounds like my POSgen project generator, just needed the governor adjusting to the right frequency and it stopped being a PITA... :) Not actually used it for any serious purpose to date though, just used it as a learning project... :P

I really enjoy your videos! I myself love wrenching on anything with an engine!

The BEST seat of your pants repairs videos. LOVE the constant chat!

Even though being Chinese made it's a neighbors so a man should give it a good shot,, "awesome fix" there Mustie'.

Sunday, waiting for the upcoming hurricane. Now I have to get my generator out and checked. Looks like Alberto is now taking dead aim my area in Florida.

Extremely knowledgeable guy, you know what you are talking about.

great job old bean. lovely work as always

Red-Kote or Por-15 the gas tank.

best thing about doing a video of it happens again just send your neighbor a video of the fix

you are my hero I began working on lawnmowers with better knowledge and I came up with a system spark air compression fuel and if all systems go then check the carb

Hey Mustie. I've been quietly watching you for a little bit now I once ran a engine repair shop and I noticed you don't use two things I found to be very helpful one is muriatic acid which works real well at cleaning out the rust in gas tanks and the other is a carb. Spray called berkebile 2+2 gum cutter these two things will really speed things up for you. Thanks for the videos enjoy!😃

This generator is in good condition

That was fun what are we gunna fix next

You nailed the price. Replacement gas tanks as cheap as 30-35 dollars. As high as 100 dollars. If it was mine i'd throw a 35 dollar replacement on it. Black or red though, if I wasn't reselling it wouldn't care. Good call on the price. Great video!

A friend of mine bought a used motorcycle. Started and idled fine. She asked me to ride it home for her. It would not accelerate unless I had the enrichner (choke) pulled out. Got it to her house (luckily on back roads where I did not need much speed) and started to work the problem. Fuel flow was good. Spark was good on both cylinders. Finally pulled the carb and the main jet was caked with black crud. Cleaned all that up and it runs smooth now. So often just a rudimentary cleaning of the carb will resurrect an engine. I think there is this mythical belief that a carburetor is a no go zone and beyond complex when really the basic parts are easy to disassemble and clean. I remember the disappointment on my roommates face when I pulled apart the carbs on my 82 Virago and he was I guess expecting faeries and rainbows to come out. "Is that it?" he said. Yup, a few tiny holes and some basic scientific principles...