Ferris owners

[ericjeeper]

I have a 3,000 series bought new in 2003. Been a wonderful piece of durable equipment.. Noticed a few weeks ago one tank was not delivering fuel so I switched to the other and went on my merry way. Well wife was mowing a few days ago. (Good wife I know) but anyhow it died and would not start. so I pulled the fuel filter and blew back into the tank.. all I could hear was air..I looked into the tank and I could see fuel.. so that tells me something has went haywire.
I pulled the little 90 degree fitting from the tank /grommet and the pick up line had rotted off.. So out of curiosity I pulled it out of the other tank and it too had rotted off.. Now I need to replace all three tank lines and two of the clunks.. They sure used some cheap junk for fuel lines in there.

 

[IXLR8]

I don't have a Ferris, but sure would like to, I was wondering if you had used fuel with ethanol in it? Ethanol can tear up fuel lines fairly quickly.

 

[ericjeeper]

I have only used regular unleaded fuel from the local pumps. No E85 or anything like that.

 

[asylum575]

Unfortunately, "regular" 87 octane gasoline is 10% ethanol here in NY. Have heard lots of problems with the fuel. Local mom and pop power equipment guy suggested I only use hi test for small engines. Now that boating season has started, several guys at my club have complained about bad gas and fuel lines and tanks going bad. I have to run my boat engine with the choke half closed.
Basically, point I'm making is the fuel you're using probably has 10% ethanol. Shelf life suffers, so make sure you keep fresh gas in. Running the engines dry would eliminate the fuel from going bad in the tank, but could damaged a two cycle engine as it runs dry without any lubricant. Darned if you do darned if you don't.

 

[ray66v]

I had this happen after 1 year on a Craftsman mower with a B&S engine.

Ethanol, not only do you get the pleasure of paying more at the store for everything, because of high corn prices, you also get to enjoy it eating up you equipment.

 

[ampsucker]

plus the energy density is lower, so there really isn't any significant savings. whatever few cents you save at the pump is eaten by the fewer mpg you get from a tank.

what a total scam and what idiots that are pushing this crap on us! i'm all for saving the planet, but let's be a little smarter, eh?