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I took the original carb and blew out the passages with water and a dental syringe. The original has more flow to the hole mentioned above. I ran it and the turned it off. It started and I turned it off again and it restarted.

Ran mower today to test while hot. Has some surging at first, less under load. Turned mower off. Would not restart. squirted about 0.3 cc of gas in carb and mower started. Turned mower off and would not start. This would not seem to be a coil problem. It seems to be a carb issue. The passage...

great advice all. Will pull plug when hot and ten see if I get spark. The choke is supposed to be open when hot. there is a thermostat. I could shoot carb cleaner(i do not have starting fluid) in to see if it will start. I could get a syringe and put a small amount of gas in carb. Cooling fins...

It will not stop if kept running but if I stop it to fill the gas it will not start right away. There is some surging when first started too. The thermostat works and was replaced. I cleaned the carb and bought a new Chinese carb(there are no OE ones) to no avail. I also put a filter in the gas...