Stuck Kubota Engine - Will It Run?

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  @brewster3987 · 3 years ago

  "As you can see... it's got some issues."  Mr. Condon, you have perfected the art of understatement. 😎

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  @bobbor5883 · 3 years ago

  One man's garbage is another man's gold!

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• DA

  @davidmonteil6340 · 3 years ago

  These videos are the best! A great deal of knowledge, patience, and skill goes into them and the repairs too. Thank you James! It's enjoyable to see such a master at work.

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• JO

  @joelhallstrom1239 · 3 years ago

  That’s one beautiful generator! I just love the control panel. The whole thing just screams quality!😍

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  @Andy-nm9dw · 3 years ago

  To clean up the needle seat you can run a Q-tip in a drill with aluminum polish-valve grinding compound or toothpaste to clean it up. I also remove ring ridges on the rubber needles with a tool I made. You can cut the head off of a 16 penny nail and place a piece of fuel line over the nail. You can then push the needle into the fuel line and run it in a drill on a piece of 1500 sand paper with a little light  weight oil. This will fix a leaking needle and seat on about any carburetor. You amaze me with the diagnostics you perform on these generators. Thank you and keep them coming.

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  @Joserocha-wm9de · 2 years ago

  As I suffer of depression and anxiety I spend my days watching a ton of your videos, I find your videos so relaxing, very detailed and your voice is so calm and you speak wisely, you Mr James Condon you are 👌 TYSM for sharing your knowledge

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• RA

  @RANDALLOLOGY · 3 years ago

  That proves,.    One man's junk is another man's treasure.         You just proved that.

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• KE

  @KensSmallEngineRepair · 3 years ago (edited)

  I love the cardboard with folded-in edges (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2o9FuPB2Fk&amp;t=2202">36:42</a>) to keep the oil from getting all over, great idea!!

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• BR

  @brucejones2354 · 3 years ago (edited)

  One thing that might add is this. To prevent rust from forming in any metal container, &nbsp; is in the final rinse use a weak dilution of sodium nitrite ( NOT sodium nitrate) in the rinse water. &nbsp;<br>I (in the long past early 90s) &nbsp;used to manage a barrel reconditioning business. &nbsp;To prevent rust from forming in the drums we used about ½cup of sodium nitrite in 1,200 gallons of water in our final rinse. This works extremely well. &nbsp;To give you an idea of how good this is, one of our customers supplied chemicals to Morton Thyocol to use in their rockets for the space program. &nbsp;There was never any problem with the sodium nitrite we used in our rinse. &nbsp;<br> Be aware that sodium nitrite is commonly used in the process of removing rust from coils of steel before it is used in the manufacturing of car parts, for example. <br> It is cheap, &nbsp;and works extremely well in fuel tanks. <br> &nbsp;Just thought this might help someone.

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• MI

  @michaeltarasenkoop2389 · 3 years ago

  James this is the example of what we as a nation is a throw away nation ! A perfect running machine is in a dump you took it and now it is operating with your knowledge

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• TR

  @troyyarbrough · 3 years ago

  James, you have more perseverance than anyone I&apos;ve ever known or seen. Great job resurrecting that old dinosaur. It&apos;s my thoughts that the reason generators like this one have little resale value is because everyone wants inverter generators now. People have been educated on the &quot;dangers&quot; of using &quot;dirty&quot; electricity on these newer electronic devices. That particular Kubota generator would be great to use on a jobsite running power tools. Thanks for the awesome content.

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  @fohdeesha · 3 years ago

  Kitty flyby at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2o9FuPB2Fk&amp;t=2990">49:50</a> ! As always, you refuse to give up and the result is always amazing

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