Recent content by outdoorpowermike

ok now. I've repaired many of these heads in the past. Remove head, the guide has about 3/16" at top of head under spring. You can buy a set screw package at harbor fright. Tap guide back into head this amount, Find the thickest place on head between cooling fins and drill a hole until the drill...

Must remove carb and in ultrasonic cleaner, remove the air mixture screw also so after 15 minutes of cleaning use compressor to blow out all ports. Replace all intake gaskets or seals. This should fix surging problem, and adjust mixture screw at idle if needed.

Have you ever heard motor run? The plastic gear do wear out, and there's reasons why, and since the cover and flywheel will need to come off to replace the starter make sure flywheel key is not damaged, have a full charged battery, no gas in cylinders and all flywheel teeth are there valves are...

well does throttle work now ?

Check to make sure you put the gov rod in the correct hole.

Well the round orange or black seals are used with plastic intake manifolds and the cardboard / paper type are used with metal type intakes. Best to get new rubber o rings at local mower shop. If reusing them use a tiny amount of silicone sealer. Just a little.

Maybe if you have enough room just add a small inline fuel filter with new hose and hose clamps.

Second pic because you need enough room to install the gov linkage also.

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A bad pto switch can be the problem or a broken wire end inside the pto switch harness. Look closely at each gold color wire end foe a 1/2 missing tab.

The ignition switch is bad. Replace with the correct switch not one that looks the same!

Wire ends do break inside pto harness plug! Look closely and maybe you will see half the gold wire end missing.

A bad pto switch will not let the motor crank, just sayin.

Just you a socket with a opening bigger then the armature, put it inside brushes and push into place.

A backfire is a pop sound coming out of the carb bore, not really the muffler. What you have going on is either a problem with the muffler coming apart internally or a exhaust valve or seat problem. If you do a good clean carb like you said I would check for these issues.