Hello everyone!
I am absolutely losing my mind over a MSR XGK stove that I have had for about 6 months and used for a total of 2-3 weeks.
It was working very well initially. Then, little orange particles started appearing in the flame. I took it apart and cleaned it, following the MSR tutorial, and also cleaned the pump.
When I fired it up again, it didn’t burn properly anymore (the flames were orange instead of blue, as you can see in the picture), even after a good pre-warming and lots of pumping.
I cleaned it again and followed the MSR pump maintenance tutorial, but not only are the flames even more orange, it seems like the valve that controls the fuel flow doesn’t work anymore (I waited for 10 min for the burner to stop; the flame was very gradually getting weaker, but was nowhere near finished. I ended up disconnecting it, and the pipe between the bottle and the stove was still full of bensin).
I am at my wits’ end, every time I touch this stove it gets worse. What is crazy is that the stove is nearly new! Does anyone have any idea of what could be happening?
Thank you for your help!