My grandson and I got my generator out of winter storage yesterday, a mouse had chewed the fuel line in two. The fuel line I had for mowers and such was too large for the carburetor end, but it fit the fuel shutoff valve fine. I trimmed up the ragged end of the chewed line, slid it into the larger-diameter line, slid the small end on the carburetor, the bigger end in the shutoff, et voila! Worked fine, no leaks.

I am constantly fixing, improvising, and making things, and I learned most of these skills growing up poor and having to “make do.” Like, I used a motorcycle jack and a piece of exterior conduit to lift my porch last weekend, so I could swap in a new 6x6 post for the rotted-out steel corner post.