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I just brought my fuel solenoid into the small engine repair shop and this is what i got. They told me my fuel solenoid is one, just a pain in the ass. It's supposed to prevent backfire or something of that nature. Two, it was very expensive to replace. I know that I had electrical and fuel both going to it. And I was burning fuel I put directly into the carb. So it had to be something in between which was this fuel solenoid. When I brought it in, it was funny to see that they just clipped the pin so that it didn't block fuel flow to the carb. This will however keep a constant fuel flow into the carb so I had to add a fuel shut off valve in the line before the solenoid. This should help with fuel problems with this expensive part. .

This part is what I call: PITA (pain in the @ss or MM (money maker) and when I diag mine to be defective (not worn out) I unscrewed it from the bottom carb bowl and removed a small seal at the end (pulled right off) and all is good now. Just overnight my engine would run out of fuel in about 30 minutes and restart after it cooled down.

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