Ryobi 5500 Watt 420cc Generator Won't Start Runs and Dies HOW TO FIX STORM Emergency REPAIR 

Great video! Exactly what I needed to know. Just bought a 3-year old with only 6-hrs run time. Same symptoms

Thanks to your video today I was able to fix my generator. after 5 hours i decided to seek help and found your video. I thank you, we are already waiting for the hurricane.

easy to drain gas. buy a marine tank hose w/o the fittings. it has a priming bulb and you can drain the gas as long as the empty container is below the level of the gas tank.

Thank you!!! I’ve learned so much and now I am hurricane ready because of you. You are awesome. MAGA 2024

Thank you , the hero. Indeed you are the hero.

I just started my (older model) Ryobi 3600/4500 watt generator, that I purchased in summer of 2017, with 4 year old 'ethanol free' gas still in it. Gas begins to naturally deteriorate after 6 months, and needs an added fuel stabilizer to store as long as 2 years. I am SHOCKED to see my generator start up and run with FOUR YEAR OLD GAS! What I did to start it was, I flipped the fuel switch from Off to On, and then pushed the starting lever from Engine Off to Choke, and pulled the string only 4 times. IT STARTED! And then I pushed the start lever over to the smooth running position and it revved up to smooth and calm, regular fast rpms. Sounds like a mild lawnmower, loud yes, but not too loud. Now when I use it again, I plan to keep STA-BIL 360 in the Ethonal Free gas, to truly stabilize it, while switch from old regular conventional engine oil, to Valvoline High-Mileage 10w-30 Synthetic Blend engine oil. Valvoline adds zinc and other cleaning elements to keep down engine crud from building up. Ryobi is the real deal!

The switch..hehehe we have all been there done that. Good job Jason. Hope all is well at the Pattay household

I use brake cleaner as starting fluid, it works just as good and it’s cheaper!

Lovely jelly in the carb . Nice fix the mullet power is strong.

FYI: a replacement carb is $28, if yours is too far gone

Awesome channel and video thank you

Great video iv forgot to turn on the switch many times lol

Thanks! Can you please drop a list of tools you used

Thank u for this video step by step

Great video. Thanks

Nice video. I would have kept the generator on the Jack stand while siphoning the gas to the gas can since it was higher.Let gravity do the work. Great job on the explaning step by step instructions.

You got it going 👍🏻 (you were just “priming” it extra😁)

Magnific

Ok I need help!!! I bought a ryobi 5500 generator from a friend he bought and used it last year ran his house for one week then store it in the garage! So we bought it and it was running pretty good the last 2 weeks now it bogged down and died when we crank it then it immediately cuts off again!???? We changed the oil what else can we do! Also the air filter has some oil in it to? Is that normal?

Need help starting mine. Changed the spark plug and cleaned out the carb and jets but will only run with brake cleaner. Anything else i can try?

Damn! That was an Easy Start.

I'm trying to get mine started, it's just like that one. Cleaned all the lines, brand new carburetor, new spark plug, fresh 93 octane gas. Still wont start with the switch on lol. Can those switches go bad?

I’ve tried cleaned the carbs but it still turned off and off I’ve only got it to do that only 2 times other then that it hasn’t started up

Jason I don’t think that screwdriver was long enough to get the main jet out don’t you have one that’s about 3 feet long?

Feel like I’m watching Sal from impractical jokers fix an engine

I got 3400 ryobi it got gas in it but it shutting off every 10 minutes it not getting enough gas but I got it full too the top what's the problem

I like the fact that you left the 21 switch pulls in the video. That switch has gotten me more than once too. Great video. I'm having compression issues with my Ryobi generator 4500. I'm gonna run thru the things you did in yours and see what happens. I had a leaf in the gas tank some how. But I fished it out of the tank. I'm wondering what else got in there. Would that cause it to not have compression?

What was that at 1:50? Carb cleaner?

Ok all I’m saying is I watched it in full. You don’t need a comment from me lol. I’m off or do I mean on. Wait. I’m on no I mean off lol

Bad gas water in the tank , caburator need clean

Bro is that a Rhode Island accent?

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Vice grip with a plastic screw.... Plastic.... Or am I seeing things?

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Good video didn’t like political crap