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Okay it's the valve clearance. I get it. I just don't know the phrase you used. Thanks though Forest. Jim

Forest, thanks for this. I think I'm going to combine what you wrote and what Brian wrote and printed it all out. But one thing and I assure you someone believed I was a tech person just testing you all but I'm not. But I'm saying this because I have no clue what a valve lash is. I will look...

Awesome Brian. Thanks again for this further update. I'll have my phone with me outside when I'm going through all this.

Oh the other thing was should I shorten the fuel line so it's like the fuel is angled down towards the carburetor because right now it's a big loop kind of? And the only other thing is this thing actually runs well then I absolutely will get a cylinder head for it. But right now I'm not sure...

Okay Brian. Thanks. I haven't done anything further so basically I got the cylinder head on. I wanted to make damn sure I didn't screw those bolts up. They're not torquing down spec, but they're fairly tight right now. The push rods are from the original cylinder. Had that say I noticed that...

I am uploading this image because I've taken apart the engine so many times. I figured while I have the cylinder head off I could put a mark on the flywheel. Put a mark on the ignition coil and make note of the fact the magnet is near the starter and with this positioning the cylinder is...

Dvzkd, I see your test on trying to eliminate the fuel tank, the hose and all that but here's a more basic question. The fuel tank sits up higher than the carburetor so the question is does the fuel line have to go from higher to lower because the one I have has a loop in it and it goes down...

Okay so this image is the cylinder head I really want to use but the spark plug hole is destroyed. So what you see in a faint red color that beefiness does not exist on the 14.5 horsepower cylinder head which is what I need to use because the spark plug hole is perfect. So this is really the...

It's July 8th about 6:00 a.m. I took off the cylinder head that is matched up with a 19.5 OHV engine. The one I'm trying to work on and I took the cylinder head from a 14.5 OHV Briggs& Stratton engine. The holes the seven bolts line up perfectly. The only thing I noticed is the cylinder head for...

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I just reread and I was never talking about the cylinder head diameter but that's a good thing to consider. I was just talking about the overall width of the whole thing because the newer cylinder head has like extra fins and creates more width for the hole cylinder head. Whereas the older one...

Hello Dvzkd, You have a lot of great information there and one thing I did see I would not take apart a carburetor to clean it. I would lose a piece or some other thing but right now the 3-year-old carburetor is on there and I snipped off part of the fuel solenoid so it's always getting fuel but...

I am sorry that you were thinking this because what happened was I destroyed the spark plug hole and and I wrapped some steel wool around the spark plug and then when I went to test it, the spark plug blew out and I couldn't find it in the yard because it was still inside of the rubber boot for...

I think your restoration projects are a hobby, I'm not really too thrilled Abbot this project considering it's been hot as hell and you know you could pick and when you want to do the restoration. But let me leave you with another completely separate project so there is a Kenmore elite...

I think I really destroyed the opening where the spark plug would go in. Secondly, the upper right screw hole for the valve cover is messed up so I'm just going to see if this old cylinder head that I was able to get off an older riding mower Will work out. Jim

Hi Davis, 2, If you're thinking that this Governor issue was somehow internal to the short block, then I can't picture myself messing around with it if that turns out to be true. Jim

I can take a deep dive into many different topics and I have had to in my lifetime but I usually don't have the right context or the big picture for whatever is going on because I don't have that kind of background. I have spent probably 55 years messing around with lawn tractors. I wish they...

Correct. I am pretty sure it will.

I try to find my previous post how how the old cylinder had was too large but the hole pattern Is correct. So the other one just has extra metal on one side for fins so I will see how the tractor runs when I install that older cylinder head which is from a 14.5 horsepower Briggs& Stratton OHV...

Well right now I don't have a cylinder head and I'm not going to try rethread the existing cylinder head but I can't tell you. Maybe about 7 days ago. I was worried about no compression and I ended up with about 85 psi for compression which I believe is on the low end. The old cylinder head that...

I just went down to get that cylinder head and I realized the socket I have is too small for the bolts so So I just removed 14.5 horsepower Briggs engine cylinder head and I rested it on top of the 19.5 horsepower Briggs engine and The old cylinder head seems to be too narrow. Jim

I just went down to get that cylinder head and I realized the socket I have is too small for the bolts. So I have to think about that if the head of the bolt is larger and that is it? Or is the bolt completely different and something could go wrong with the existing short block especially with...

Someone had asked about banging noises and I completely forgot to include the link from this morning when the spark plug blew out. But but this is from this morning there is no banging. It's only hunting and surging and then the spark plug blew out of the spark plug hole. But thanks for doing...

796026. Is the Briggs& Stratton part number 796026

Okay, I know it's a Briggs& Stratton 14.5 horsepower OHV and currently it's sitting in a bed of poison. Ivy, so what I just planned on doing was just taking the cylinder head off. There's like six bolts and seeing if it matches up with what I currently have. I can't see any further things that...

There absolutely was this banging noise and I have been trying to get this thing going for several weeks. There have been many different things going on at different times. What I can say right now is there is no banging. From what I can tell, there is hunting and surging. This morning the spark...

I decided that I'm going to use J-B weld on the spark plug. The reason being is the cylinder head is garbage at this point and I only want to see if having a spark plug even for a few hours to remain in the cylinder head if I can stop the hunting and surging and at this point since I removed the...

Steve, what happened was I went outside. I removed the kill wire it ran for maybe a minute. Still hunting and surging and because I crossed threaded at the spark plug a couple days ago, it blew the spark plug right out of the spark plug hole in the cylinder head. So right now I'm not sure what I...

The one test that I wanted to do with a brand new fuel solenoid was where you basically snip off the plunger inside of it to see if the hunting and surging is due to some electrical malfunction inside of the wires or something like that. I do know that with the electronic fuel solenoid connected...

I removed the kill wire. It was still hunting and surging and as I recall years ago I got rid of the electronic solenoid and install the shut-off switch for the fuel line. But in any case, although you don't see it, this is a video where it's running for a few minutes. It's hunting and surging...

Thanks for this. You did not waste words I will be checking this out. Jim

I have never heard of a magnetic dial indicator. I will look that up later and its usage. But one thing I was messing around with few weeks ago is trying to figure out if some of the safety features were screwing up the engine and then since I had constant spark I thought no issue with the...

https://www.partswarehouse.com/31P677-3373-G2-Briggs-and-Stratton-Engine-s/235041.htm I have been using the above website link for the engine and this goes back like 3 years or more. I also considered trying to use steel wool on the parts I couldn't read and then I was thinking maybe I just...

I started to take a look at what you wrote and I absolutely will remove the kill wire because right now it starts right up it hunts and surges and the temperature gets up to about 800° f ine. I didn't know at the time what the purpose of removing the kill wire was, but now I know and I can...

It's late at night, but it seems like you have a pretty exhaustive list of things to look at. And I absolutely will read it tomorrow morning. But I've included the engine code and it's just so hard to read and I'm pretty sure this is the best photo which is cropped that I have Jim made

But the weird thing is maybe 5 days ago it was running very smooth. Everything seems smooth and the engine temperature was about 450° Fahrenheit. Maybe 500° and then something happened then and then it went back up to 800° f

I actually was thinking this just about the fan that even if I get all the fins I'm still going to end up with around 700° f. But like you're saying regarding the governor, since the component is inside and I'm not an engine expert wouldn't I would not know this if this is broken or not. If...

I see what you're saying and that was definitely a mistake on my part as far as describing the problem. But the fact is the flywheel was rotating and nothing else was happening. And at the time the reason why that was true is because of flywheel key was sheered and that was fixed and as of July...

I actually did this maybe 5 days ago and I came up with a distance of travel of 1 cm approximately for each valve and another member of this forum computed the same thing for his machine. If the 1 cm difference seems wrong then I have the units right here in my description wrong. But whatever I...

I absolutely can do this tomorrow just to at least make sure the valve clearances are correct. The push rods are not bent. The post that the rocker arms sit on are solid against the plate and anything else that I find that might be unusual, but that's a good suggestion. Jim

Hello I bought a compression testing kit and although one of the fittings did not fit perfectly with a spark plug hole, there is an adapter that makes a pretty good fit and the compression was 86 psi. I stopped using the carburetor cleaner. The only reason I mainly did that is so I wouldn't...

This is from 5:15 p.m. July 6th so the engine starts. Right up and at least I guess I only contend with one variable now hunting and surging. It sounds like the carburetor so I put the fuel mixer screw in all the way and then I backed it out about one turn and every 30 minutes or so I back it...

Right on that. The part I'm looking at off the top of my head is Briggs& Stratton 796201. I think that's what it is I lost the post but someone was telling me about the flywheel fan and I could say the part that I need is Briggs& Stratton 796201 and that's everything but I only need the plastic...

I just went back outside at 3:15 p.m. I am keeping in mind running this even with everything back in place for under say 20 seconds. I can say it started right up. It sounds like the engine's strong and a lot of hunting and surging. So in a couple seconds that I had, I started messing around...

Forest, I did take a look at that flywheel fan. I was looking for some numbers or letters and there is nothing except the Briggs& Stratton logo put. The one I have has two dimples on the bottom and I can buy like three parts and be sure I got the correct plastic fan but I am trying to figure out...

Forest, thanks for the heads up on this. Even with everything put back in a partially broken flywheel fan which recently broke and I have no clue why. But the point is what you're saying makes a lot of sense about the fan and go to a place that has old engines before anything else. I do...

I have to put the original coil back on and this is a good point you make. Honestly, I don't think it'll make any difference but I absolutely will put the old coil back on.

It starts up perfectly fine without carburetor cleaner is what I was trying to say

I am sorry I was using carburetor cleaner. I can tell you that the most recent startup was without carburetor cleaner because everything was put back on the engine including the housing and it can't start without carburetor cleaner. I just wanted to make it easier for whatever is going on with...