Re: Small engine problems

Posted by The tractor vet on February 13, 2017 at 09:07:01 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Small engine problems posted by Bill in IL on February 13, 2017 at 08:26:39:

Yep you still have either reduced fuel flow from the tank to the carb or ya have junk in the carb from the old stale gas . I go thru this every spring with the lawn mowers for the last couple years . Friend of mine and his wife own a Sear home town store and one day he showed up at my house and dropped off five new mowers and two New or i should say lightly used mowers that people brought back because they did not run and the Sears service tech messed with each one for like five min. and said scrap them and give the customers NEW ones and to throw the old ones in the dumpster as they were junk. The following Sunday afternoon armed with a hand full of tools and a spark tester and fresh gas i went playing with them . First test do i have spark YES , i know i have gas , i have gas at the carb , so if there is gas at the carb but it still does not run then the gas is not going thru the carb . and on four of the mowers the main jets all had what looked like clear grains of sand stuck in them . A poke with a torch tip cleaner and a lawn mower inline fuel filter and four ran on first pull . The fifth mower took a bit more work and a new blade as that one the owner hit something and bent the blade and sheared the crank KEY . I had to walk across the street to the neighbor and got a Briggs crank key off of him and it ran . The two snow blowers were the same issue junk in the main jets.In the matter of two hours and two beers i had them all up and running . I kept two and last year i had to do the same thing with the carbs even with the inline filters on both of them , both started on first pull and ran for maybe ten min.'s and died and once again the main jets were plugged with the same grainny stuff.

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