I have a couple year old Ariens Platinum with the AX414, I have had it to the dealer once for some minor fixes and a leaking gas cap. They fixed the minor stuff and put a new gas cap on it. It is still leaking, they said they would try another cap, I dont feel the cap is the issue. Has one found anything that works?

Thanks!

Sorry, what do you mean the cap is leaking? Leaking under what conditions? Just normal operation, like from gas sloshing around in the tank? Or when tipping the machine forward for service?

Leaking all the time, doesnt matter if it is full or not still leaks and runs down the front of the tank. What I normally do is before I start doing my driveway I fill the tank full. It normally takes me at least a half an hour to do my driveway and sidewalks. I will then put the blower in the garage and shut the fuel off and let it run out of gas in the carb. I have also just shut off the engine without running the carb out of fuel, it does not make a difference. It still leaks gas all over the tank down the front of the engine...It looks like it is leaking from under the gas cap.

Do you still have the screen mounted in the tank neck, like the attached pic? I found it better to remove that so the cap sits down better on the tank lip. There is another screen on the fuel shut-off valve in the tank.

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No I took that out, I found about another 20 mins of run time when I took that out, sometimes it takes me over an hour to do everything and the AX414 is pretty thirsty!

Do you have a picture? I guess I'm just struggling a bit to understand, and that's not meant as anything negative. I've just never dealt with a mystery gas leak, or a cap that had this problem.

I guess I've been spoiled by tanks and caps that do their jobs quietly, so I don't have to worry about them But I do recall hearing discussions of certain Ariens caps that are awkward to use, at least. I think on the AX engines.

It leaks even just sitting there? Or only when using it, so gas is sloshing around? If it's from the cap, I wouldn't expect the fuel shutoff, etc, to change anything.

Yeah, I'm really struggling to figure out how fuel can go *up* to escape the cap when parked and not sloshing ... makes no sense to me at this point . . . Short of filling it absolutely to the brim and then having the fuel warm up and expand, I'm out of ideas . . .

The fuel level is right about 1/4 tank....The dealer wants to replace the cap again, but that does nothing.... Anyone from Ariens on here I could talk to?

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http://apache.ariens.com/manuals/B-2128.pdf
Does this help??

They have already done that and tried it to no help. This machine was bought in 2015. My dealer actually said to remove the strainer as it does nothing. The machine does it when it is sitting on a level garage floor with about a 1/4 tank of gas in it....Not alot of gas but enough that the garage stinks...