EddieWalker
Epic Contributor
Couple of years ago I couldn't get my little Honda generator to start. It's always been easy to start, but that day it just sputtered and died. I thought it was a fuel issue, so I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out and even bypass the gas tank and run a separate fuel line without any improvement. Then I noticed that the exhaust was plugged up with dirt. I cleaned out the dirt and it fired right up and ran great.
For the last week or so my Kawasaki Mule has been running poorly without any power. I thought it was the fuel filter, or something blocking the fuel from getting to the engine. It fires up quickly and easily, and it ran fine just sitting there, but once you tried to drive it, there was nothing there. It never died, it just didn't have enough power to move faster then a crawl and it felt like it was dying.
I never did find a fuel filter and need to look online to see if I can find a diagram showing me where it's at. I'm guess that it's inside the fuel tank. Anyway, while searching for the fuel filter, I was following a hose that came off of my charcoal filter that was open to the air under my fuses. It was plugged up with dirt from mud daubers. I removed the dirt and then took off the hose and blew it out with my air compressor. Since I couldn't find a fuel filter, or anything else wrong, I decided to take it for a test drive.
WOW, it was night and day better. I had so much power that I had to slow down while racing around my place because I was scaring myself!!!! It's so much better then I even remember it being when I first bought it. The power is awesome, and what's really amazing, is that it was such a simple thing to fix. It just slowly happened over time and I just sort of got used to it having less power as it happened over time. I just hope that the next time I have a mud dauber issue that I recognize it sooner!!!
For those that are not familiar with them. Mud dauber - Wikipedia
For the last week or so my Kawasaki Mule has been running poorly without any power. I thought it was the fuel filter, or something blocking the fuel from getting to the engine. It fires up quickly and easily, and it ran fine just sitting there, but once you tried to drive it, there was nothing there. It never died, it just didn't have enough power to move faster then a crawl and it felt like it was dying.
I never did find a fuel filter and need to look online to see if I can find a diagram showing me where it's at. I'm guess that it's inside the fuel tank. Anyway, while searching for the fuel filter, I was following a hose that came off of my charcoal filter that was open to the air under my fuses. It was plugged up with dirt from mud daubers. I removed the dirt and then took off the hose and blew it out with my air compressor. Since I couldn't find a fuel filter, or anything else wrong, I decided to take it for a test drive.
WOW, it was night and day better. I had so much power that I had to slow down while racing around my place because I was scaring myself!!!! It's so much better then I even remember it being when I first bought it. The power is awesome, and what's really amazing, is that it was such a simple thing to fix. It just slowly happened over time and I just sort of got used to it having less power as it happened over time. I just hope that the next time I have a mud dauber issue that I recognize it sooner!!!
For those that are not familiar with them. Mud dauber - Wikipedia