lazer mag xpress

[eyeguy 54]

mine says 24:1 on the side of the engine and I have always done that. anybody go 40:1 on it? ok to do?? thx

[eyeguy 54]

got my answer from strike master. A OK.

[BuckSutherland]

Try the amsoil. 100 to 1. No more oil puking out the muffler. Been running it for 5 years in mine.

[zppeterson]

I run 50:1 in mine and haven't had any issues

[Drail1313]

100:1 mix For more years then I can remember. (My idea was to blow this one up and get a new one, auger is like 15 years old, the wife says no new one till this one stops!!!) DANG WELL BUILT AUGER!!! LOL

[ozzie]

I run amsoil in mine and run approx. 100:1

[wally diver 2]

I mistakenly put 50 to 1 in mine and blew it up on red a few years ago it was also about 15 below outside. Now I have a solo 2.5 horsepower. Ways faster auger.

[eyeguy 54]

tuned it up in March, drained it and ran it out of gas, filled it today with fresh gas and oil and nothing. grrrrrrr! lol Maybe 10 years old and first time. its at a shop and I wont see it for 2 weeks. power equipment here said month and a half! yikes. found a spot in waite park

[Surface Tension]

tuned it up in March, drained it and ran it out of gas, filled it today with fresh gas and oil and nothing. grrrrrrr! lol Maybe 10 years old and first time. its at a shop and I wont see it for 2 weeks. power equipment here said month and a half! yikes. found a spot in waite park

You dried out the diaphrams in the carb.

Pull the spark plug, add a shot of gas, install plug and start.

Repeat till it stays running.

[hamms-scooter]

Good tip Frank.

[Tom Sawyer]

Yep, just dried out Where did you take it Royce?

10 years old.... that's just getting broken in for as much as I seen you drill holes.

[Surface Tension]

To reiterate on the dry diaphrams.

Your engine uses what would be called a diaphram carburetor.

Consider this a heart. There is one dia that meters the fuel and pumps in combination with the fuel inlet valve.

This dia gets an impulse from the crankcase that make the dia vibrate.

Another dia has flaps that controls the flow and pulse. When that dia is dry it isn't making good contact and it flutters but isn't working. I should say that dry can be literally dry or a film of oil thickened by fuel thats flashed off/evaporated over time and the flap valves are stuck.

Primeing with gas will eventually get gas to the carb, wet the diaphrams with fresh fuel and everything is OK again.

Running the engine dry in Spring isn't the best way to put the auger away.

Not only are you removing fuel from the carb but your drying out the crank and cylinder walls of lube.

A fuel stabilizer in the gas and then run though the fuel system is good.

Running the engine periodically throughout the summer to would be good too.

[Tom Sawyer]

Run it every time you think of charging the Vexilar battery.

[hamms-scooter]

I run mine every time I mow the yard.

[Surface Tension]

I run mine every time I mow the yard.

Good idea, I mow my lawn a few times a summer whether it needs it or not.