Originally Posted by
Iride01
The little bubble thing on my string trimmer you have to push to prime it with gas started leaking. I didn't want to bother going to the store, but needed to make the yard look nice. So I cut a piece of a bike inner tube and put it in it's place hoping for a temporary fix. To my surprise it worked very well. Four years later it's still there today and leak free despite being in constant contact with gasoline and the two stroke oil mix.
Iride, did you just lay the tube flat to seal where the primer bulb was, or did you kinda bunch it up a bit so you can still use it to prime the carb?
I have a couple of machines that need a new one, they don't seem to last very long for me.