HONDA EU10i

Have you made sure the petrol cap breather is turned to 'ON'. I've left it closed before and a similar thing happened.

Cheers,

Mark.

How long since you used it??
Maybe old fuel? Suggest drain all fuel and refill with fresh unleaded.
Unleaded fuel does age and could be your problem!

Whenever you get it going, maybe resolve to give it a run for 5 minutes each month. I've been doing that with my Yamaha EF1000 for the last year - a fine machine, but it was very cranky when I let it sit for about 9 months - fuel was the issue (the complex carby throttle gizmos may have been gummed up), but the balance between starved and flooded was an aissue until I settled it down. On the monthly run, it starts first pull everytime and then purrs away.

G'Day
Always interested in Honda posts as I have the EU20.

Read a post recently where a member had a prob with eco throttle and it was corroded, not good, but he did use on beach a lot.

Def the go to run them often, actually says in manual run minimum once a month, but thats not helping you right now.

You've covered all the obvious stuff, if it was mine, I would now be fuelling it up, and run it hard on a heavy load eco throttle off obviously, let it work for an hour or so, then try eco again.

If that didnt work, I'd reluctantly have to go to dealer.

You got 4yr warranty you know, if its still in warranty and dealer not too far, dont stuff around just take it in.

Keep us posted on your progress.

Interesting to know if we should perhaps be giving a squirt of wd40 on some relevant part of the eco throttle.

Good Luck

Ron

My Yammie EF1000 was doing a similar thing a while back and I took it to my local small engine repairer. He said it was a gummed-up baffle in the exhaust system. Worked great when I got it back from him.

However, your post has reminded me of the importance of running these little blokes (whether it be Yammie or Honda or whatever brand) on a regular basis..... and I haven't been doing that even since I got it fixed a few months ago. I will now get some fresh fuel and get the little sucker fired up this weekend.

Roachie

Perhaps you should have baught a GMC then you could have thrown it away???????????????????????

Hey Troll,

how'd you go mate?

any joy, hope its all good for your trip

Ron