Understand Problem and Potential Causes

In this video, we're going to go over some troubleshooting ideas on an MITM power washer with a Honda engine that's been stalling and not running properly. I've got before me an MITM power washer with a Honda engine. And this power washer was acting up and it would actually die while we're using it. It's less than a year old. And it would actually act like it was running out of gas and then die and quit running. And we'd go check the engine and check the gas tank and it'd be full of gas or half full of gas and we couldn't figure out why it was not running properly and why it kept acting like it would it was running out of gas and it would begin sputtering and just like if it was running out of gas and just the engine would start to to miss and then it'd eventually die. We'd wait, go check, pull off the gas cap. We would actually check the gas. It would have gas. we'd pull it and it would start right back up and start again. Now, we'll discuss what could possibly be causing that problem and how to remedy it. So, we have this the Honda engine before us right here and two things that are actually going to cause that engine to start dying typically. And one of them is a faulty gas cap or right here on the engine, we got a yellow wire right here. This is actually an oil sensor and it senses the oil level on the engine itself and it's actually a kill switch. So, if the oil level gets too low, it's actually going to kill the engine and it's a safety mechanism that keeps the low oil level from ruining the engine. In this power washer, we checked the gas cap. The gas cap was functioning properly. And so, then the next thing we did was we checked the oil level on the Honda engine. And there's a oil level