Homelite Generator wont start

[colonel]

Homelite 6000 Generator with a Subaru Robin motor won't start. Last time I did start it was in CT before selling my house up there in Northeast a year ago. Now in NC, I did everything I could, clean carbu, change spark, change oil, I did spray a little starting fluid inside the choke and is trying but...... I read this generator motor has a sensor for the low oil, so I would like to bypass it and get the motor running. The reason I dont take it to the shop ( here in the Triad ) is damn heavy and I dont really use it a lot. Thanks

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Shot of ether?

 

[john3850]

Remove the plug and check for spark by grounding the plug and cranking the engine.

 

[john3850]

If your engine was turned on it side while moving it you may have lost some of the the oil needed to keep it primed up to the sensor.
If the oil sensor works on pressure cranking the engine with the gas off may help to turn it back on.
If the sensor has two wires short them out.
I would only run the engine a few seconds with sensor bypassed and recheck oil.

 

[Squisher]

If it has spark, take off the carb and take it to a shop for them to boil clean it. $20 around here. Same thing happened to me recently with a walk behind string trimmer that I got off of CL for cheap because that guy couldn't get it to start. I tried rebuilding the carb including blowing it out with gumout and air. I got out a .015 piece of copper wire and tried to clean passages, it all failed. Boiling is the trick.

 

[colonel]

I work for Safety Kleen and we sell washers for boiling parts, I will have to find a shop with this kind of washer. The washer works with a pump and heats up the solvent we sell inside and removed all grease from the part.

 

[RLGL]

What you really need is a heated Ultrasonic cleaner. The "solvent" is water and Dawn dish soap. I that can't clean it it needs to be replaced. I used one for years, the only way to clean fuel system parts.