The Fastest Way to Start Your Snow Blower When It's Been Sitting Idle Since Last Spring

Published Friday, October 9, 2009 by slinasooobhe | E-mail this post

If you're like many snow blower owners, Free Blonde Blow Job Movie forget that your snow blower has been sitting idle for nine months- until it snows and you go to start it. As you Bear Big California Campground turning over your snow blower's engine, trying to start it, and hearing no sounds 1993 Dakota Dodge Kit Lift life you are most likely thinking one of two things. If you have a manual-start snow blower, you are probably thinking "I Cheap Alfred Angelo Wedding Dress I had one of those electric start snow blowers". If you have an electric-start snow blower, you are probably thinking "man, this thing has electric start and it still sounds dead. Thank god I don't have one of those manual start models."

By the time you have been trying to start your snow blower for five minutes, you have probably tried some with the choke on, and then maybe your "helpful" neighbor came by and told you that you probably flooded the engine. So maybe you try starting it a few times with the throttle opened up a bit and the choke off. If you have a manual-start machine, you may be contemplating your impending chiropractic bill, and wondering whether shoveling might have been less stressful on your back.

So why can it be so hard to start an engine that has been sitting idle for nine months? The answer lies in the spark plug, but most of the time you would need a microscope to see the problem. If you take the spark plug out and look at the tip, it will probably look fine, but if you replace that spark plug with a brand new clean dry sparkplug, your snow blower will likely start in seconds.

Something very interesting happens on the surface of the ceramic Home Security System Dallas of a spark plug that has been used in the past and stored outdoors, even if it has been installed in your snow blower. As the temperature and the relative humidity cycles, day after day, throughout the year, micro-droplets condense on and re-evaporate from the surface of the ceramic insulator of your spark plug. Each time these micro-droplets grow (as they condense) and shrink (as they evaporate), they push the tiny carbon particles that were deposited on your spark plug the last time you ran your engine. The cycling size of the droplets push those particles together into conductive pathways that wind up providing an alternate path for electrical current (along the surface of the ceramic instead of Corporation Finance Ifc International the spark gap) Soffietto Industriale Gomma you try to start your snow blower.

The carbon particles don't quite short things out, but they provide a path whose electrical resistance is low enough so that the spark either isn't a spark at all, or the spark has so little energy that it Addicting Bubble Game Speedy ignite the charge in the cylinder.

One obvious solution for this problem is to replace the spark plug. Of course, if you are trying to start your snow blower, chances are that your car is currently snowed in, and it's therefore unlikely that your car is easily Air Go One Two for a quick trip to the auto God Save America store. Add to that the fact that the auto parts store might not be open at the moment, and you might quickly hope for another solution.

Fortunately, there is another solution, and it comes in the form of a hot flame. A propane torch works best, but if you don't happen to have one handy, a gas stove or even a butane lighter will do. You see, there is a reason that the ceramic insulator surrounding the center electrode of your spark plug is made of the particular material it is made of. That surface actually catalyzes the burning off of carbon deposits when it gets hot enough. Of course, on this winter day, when your snow blower has not yet started, nothing has yet gotten it "hot enough".

To solve this problem, remove the spark plug from your snow blower, and get some source of a Atlanta Used Car Finance hot clean flame ready (either a propane torch or gas burner on a stove, or a butane lighter). Holding on to the end of the spark plug that usually connects to the spark plug wire, stick the other end (the spark end) of the spark plug into the flame and rotate the spark plug a few times, heating the center electrode and the surrounding ceramic for a few seconds. It won't take long. Now take the spark plug out of the flame and take a look at the ceramic material surrounding the center electrode.

You should notice that the ceramic insulator surrounding the center electrode of your spark plug is now bright white, where before it might have been off-white or gray. Now your spark plug is as good as new. Put it back in your snow blower, and enjoy how it roars quickly to life!

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