Honda GX160 carburetor help.

[vtfireman85]

An older friend has a Honda on a wood splitter, it has had a Chinese carburetor installed and it has never been right, I am trying to find a new Honda carb and can’t decipher the sticker, there’s probably 15 choices in variations. If anyone has insight or a good source I would appreciate it. 
 

[supermechanic]

Call these people.

 https://www.bluemtnengine.com/

[TroyDairy]

Weve had good luck with the Ebay variants.

Ill have to look but there is a large honda parts guy in MI iirc my nephew gets parts from.  He has become quite the flipper of 4 wheelers. 90% of issues... fuel related. 

[TroyDairy]

Weve had good luck with the Ebay variants.

Ill have to look but there is a large honda parts guy in MI iirc my nephew gets parts from.  He has become quite the flipper of 4 wheelers. 90% of issues... fuel related

 

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Partszilla.com 

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

I have a GX160 on a gas air compressor. I don’t even try to work on them anymore. I just search eBay for OEM Honda GX160 carburetor and have never had a problem with the one that shows up. 

[Drysleeves]

Priority one on any carbonated engine is don't use ethanol gas.

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

I use E15 in everything that we have. Old tractors and small engines included. I have never had a single issue that I have been able to attribute to the gas. My sprayer pump sits all winter with E15 in it, and I have never had it fail to start in the spring. Maybe I’m just lucky, but the rest of my life makes me think that that is not the case.

[Powered by IH]

40 minutes ago, Drysleeves said:

Priority one on any carbonated engine is don't use ethanol gas.

Carbureted? 😁

[stronger800]

I have 25-35 year old small engines that run, seasonally, on e10 or e15 fuel, but I’ve always stored them off season  with non ethanol fuel  and Seafoam.  Original fuel lines on everything still, knock on wood.

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

10 minutes ago, stronger800 said:

I have 25-35 year old small engines that run, seasonally, on e10 or e15 fuel, but I’ve always stored them off season  with non ethanol fuel  and Seafoam.  Original fuel lines on everything still, knock on wood.

I had an F350 with a blown 460 engine that sat for 5 years with a nearly full tank of E10. It started and drove to the shop to replace the engine. It ran terrible, but had major engine problems to begin with. 

[TroyDairy]

22 minutes ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said:

I had an F350 with a blown 460 engine that sat for 5 years with a nearly full tank of E10. It started and drove to the shop to replace the engine. It ran terrible, but had major engine problems to begin with. 

Our irrigation reels cant sit a winter with ethanol fuel   Bowl will be full of a jello and rust.  Since getting non eth on farm its decreased our "reel down" times by prob 80%

[stronger800]

I had  a fuel pump go bad in my three year old pick up when I let it sit for about two months two years ago. Who has heard of a modern automotive fuel pump going bad recently.  Set right up. I blame fuel.  Shoulda had seafoam in it 

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

57 minutes ago, TroyDairy said:

Our irrigation reels cant sit a winter with ethanol fuel   Bowl will be full of a jello and rust.  Since getting non eth on farm its decreased our "reel down" times by prob 80%

I wonder if it is a regional thing. I hear way too many horror stories for it not to be true. Maybe some is just worse? The farm fuel supplier here sells E15, so I buy it. There aren’t many places you can get it here. 

[stronger800]

Non E fuel is typically 30 or $.35 a gallon more. I only buy it for storage.

 

Buddy, owns a snowmobile dealership. The amount of electric fuel pump and injectors they replace seems to go up exponentially every year. Pretty rare to find a carburetor there anymore

[vtfireman85]

I ended up having to go back for more numbers, but thanks to @supermechanic suggestion they were helpful and told me what I needed to look for. $65 which I didn’t think was bad at all. Stay tuned for a run report. 

[Drysleeves]

17 hours ago, Powered by IH said:

Carbureted? 😁

Yes but carbonated is more funner.

[stronger800]

$65 seems -very- reasonable for a Honda part.  

[stronger800]

I put a $9 eBay carb on a $5 leaf blower I bought off a neighbor. It would run good, but only start good when cold.  Couldn’t ever get it adjusted to start good when hot and also idle .

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

I gave $43.99 for the last one I bought earlier this year and it came with both gaskets. OEM Honda part. 

[yellowrosefarm]

To answer your original question, the info is on the block just above that flat vertical surface where the serial number is. Sounds like you have a solution on the way