it is back together and running now
new fuel line

this was about a softball chunk of ice , I had run the tank empty last month

the tank was mostly full I had filled it a month ago and only ran it 20-30 minutes after

I only run 91 no E and I try and get fresh every month so this seems like a lot of water.

probably just better to cover it anyway I had a tarp on it but that blew off in some of the days of wind and rain.

yes it sits out next to my wood shed , I wish I had made the shed much bigger and have 3 bays with a years wood each and one for storing tools in.

The source of water could have been at the pump where you bought it. An automobile would probably have just sputtered a bit from that amount of water, but your little engine which just sips gas in comparison, and with gravity feed is doomed to fail with water in the tank, including a soft ball of ice.