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It is worth noting how much certain conditions will chew up the blades. Living near creeks I think is the worst and then woods is the second worst but I learned a long time ago how amazingly rough simply sticks and or pine cones were on a blade. It makes sense that blades get chewed up if people...

But exactly how long does it take you to sharpen the average blade like this? Obviously a very dull blade is going to take long and one that's not nicked or chewed up or even that dull won't take long at all but how long does the average blade take you?

It's not It's not the governor. The governor is doing its job and when the engine starts to slow down RPMs it opens up to try to maintain the speed which eventually and pretty quickly in this case it opens to full throttle trying to get more speed. It can't do that because there's not enough...

I'm a little confused by your statement sharp side down.. I get a lot of mowers in every year the blades are on upside down and I often tell people that since they usually understand that lawn mower blades are only sharpened on one side, to put the sharpened edge up towards the sky.

Now after reading most of the replies I'm going to say I'm glad that most people realize it's not that big of a deal. Those of you who are going to insist that some commercial blade bouncer is really necessary and it makes a real difference or any other thing like cleaning off the blades and...

Before I even read the replies I'm going... Let's not! Let's don't even bother to talk about it because no one is ever going to agree on it and there no real consensus since brand new blade manufacturers will sell you a brand new blade in different types of sharpness, coated/dipped and paint, or...

It's very possible because the ACR on these Briggs & Stratton engines is an absolute joke! They should have fixed the problem long ago but Briggs basically refuses to fix anything of their inferior quality designs. Don't get me wrong, I love Briggs & Stratton engines, some of them. I just call...

These things rarely have any valve adjustment issues that will prevent them from running or running just fine UNLESS someone has been in their monkeying around. If you hear one popping out of the intake after it gets up to even slightly past a slow running speed then you can guess that the...

From all of this I think we've learned one thing and it goes back to what I always tell everyone when troubleshooting a mower... Always start by making sure the machine is getting enough fuel especially on the no starts because well over 85% of the time that is the case.. After you have...

The coil Gap is pretty forgiving on those. Just use a business card or whatever but most of them will fire just fine even at the widest position and it's more important to make sure it doesn't rub on the flywheel but a few thousands here or there is not going to cause a no spark condition. If...

Whatever happened with this? I'm a little confused if I conflicting statements in the first post. Says they think it's obviously too rich but then when they give it choke it smooths out and runs better but only has 30% power. Sounds to me like it's actually lean and even with the choke it's not...

Did you just buy this more recently? If so, I can kind of see the concern because it's a new toy but either way, I feel there's way too much thought and emphasis but into this situation.. It's a mower, you turn on the blades you drive over the grass and it cuts the grass. That's really all I...

Or just knock the the lousy green crap down and don't worry about it. You're just going to have to do it again in about a week. 2-3 weeks for me because I hate grass that much. Wait! Does that mean I should mow every 3 days. DIE GRASS DIE!

I see where you've changed the coils but you need to do basic diagnosis to see why it isn't starting when this happens. I assume it's cranking over but not running? Then the first thing would be to determine whether it's not running because it has too little fuel or too much. Technically you can...

I can't imagine commercial customers bringing in their mower every weekend for this. Is this what you're saying they do or you just mean when they do get around to it they drop it off on a weekend. I'm going to have to weigh in on that with my cheapslate(ness). I find that to be ridiculous and I...

I would either remove them if possible or just forget about it. It's really not worth messing with either way.. If you're not cutting super wet class then there's not much reason to worry about what the underside of your deck looks like until you get around to sharpening or changing out your...

No doubt everyone has a different philosophy but as I said before there are many ways to do something to obtain the same desired end result. Also, as I mentioned before apparently people's climates and conditions and other factors greatly influence what you will see or what you need to do. I...

And there we have it and just what I expected from someone.. Being critical of the method of repair when you have no information on the results of those repairs. Maybe in your experience you have seen it work out differently but I thoroughly researched this through observation and personal...

I don't find that many of the YouTube guys use this method but it's all over the place on YouTube and that's why I hate bothering with the videos and don't like it when people go there because they typically do more work than they need to do or mess things up and then can't get it fixed on their...

Yes, I do it all the time. On the old Briggs with aluminum carb there's no separate pilot jet or emulsion tube etc to get these things running. I just push the mower handles to the ground so the front wheels are off and so the carb won't leak when I take the bowl off from the half inch jet bolt...

Problem is there are only a FEW that do good work as you just said. I would say over 80% of them that I have seen either do things the wrong way or the hard way.

Yes, and most of this is because of the evil youtube! I tell people all the time to stay away from that and away from that rabbit hole because most every video I see either does things the wrong way completely or at least they do things the hard way. Most people do come up with the proper...

Looks like you're choke is in the closed position and it's only being forced open because many of those are on a spring and they can work against the spring and yours is bouncing back and forth as the engine surges. This could just be that the choke adjustment from the cable needs to be proper...

As someone else said earlier, do a thorough and proper diagnosis before you throw more parts at the machine. This happens way too often with homeowners and by the second or third attempt they stumble into it and get it right and it just creates positive reinforcement of doing a bad pattern in...

I'm sure it works fine for you and like I said, cleaning up deposits and other crap like that and the carbon buildup probably far outweighs any slight variation of the margin and the sealing surface from the angles being a little off or not quite as crisp . However, I think we can both agree...

At this point I don't think the owner has any idea what's going on other than the mower isn't fixed yet. The guy who owns the shop is insistent on it being perfect from what OP has posted and he's the one with unrealistic expectations. I bet the owner would have been happy right after it was put...

I have a fairly High hour woods mow n machine that's really a grasshopper with an underpowered bridge vanguard 12 horsepower or maybe it's a 14 but I think it's a 12 with a 44 inch deck and they should have stuck with the 16 they did a lot of or even the 18th but I run straight 40 Valvoline vr1...

I'm sure the owner would be quite happy at this point but he has some weird shop owner who wants it perfect and is going to put a lot more time and money into it or at least drive this tech nuts without even consulting the customer and seeing how happy is the situation currently which is what he...

I'm going to file this in the category of things that can't happen and aren't possible until I actually see it for myself. The problem is what's your definition of smoking?? What kind of smoke was it? Was it mostly white, mostly blue or mostly black and sooty? There should be no way that putting...

Now you know you're going to make some people's heads spin around talking about cleaning up valves and even daring to mention touching the sealing surface with something so unprecise as your finger!!! I don't actually think I've used Emery cloth on them or sandpaper but I have used the fairly...

Yep, I have hated that solenoid for decades because for 25 years it has been the most overpriced ripoff part on a lawn mower.. They were 48 to $68 minimum and many of them were right in the 90s like you just stated. I was so happy to see a few years ago when I started popping in for under $10...

Yes, especially if the fuel is kind of whitish with only a tint of blue when it first comes out and only for two or three seconds. That is a common sign that the carb is continuing to drip inside because the needle and seat are not shutting off properly and you'll get the smoke after it's sat...

Well, first of all I think your boss is being kind of a weirdo expecting so much perfection out of old used worn out parts. He should realize that's just not possible just like extreme lifespan isn't possible on a lot of this new equipment and you should never expect that or lead your customers...

Also, on these valves. The 31xxxxand 33xxxxx and most of these Briggs engines set with the Piston one quarter inch past top dead center so going down in the bore at least one quarter inch after top dead center when both valves are closed on the compression stroke, and even better if you want to...

Okay, several things. I understood from the beginning that you cut the plunger tip off and not the wire and someone else misunderstood that. That person did talk about doing that as a poor man's fix and the other text who insist on doing things a certain way of replacing Parts need to not worry...

Yep, seen that several times. Had three ladybugs blow out of an old John Deere stx38 if you see something to go. Had a Cub cadet zero turn that had these long 4-in strands of thick grass all the way down in the fuel line coming out when I pulled it off the fuel pump. Another thing I've seen...

A lot of things here but I'll try to cover the basics. Firstly, I'm never a fan of replacing Parts especially carburetors because they rarely ever wear out unless they're 20 plus years old and the throttle shaft has worn into the aluminum body and it's sucking air. That's about it. Nine times...

But this is kind of like best case scenario and not what the average person is going to experience not right now in the very near future. I've covered all this before and I cover it with facts not personal preferences. Personal preference wise, I hate most battery-powered things but not all. I...

For a long time the gasoline equipment manufacturers stayed far far away from battery but then they eventually saw the demand so most of them have gotten into them too. One big problem is they're actually driving the nails into their own coffin by making poor quality equipment like you...

As of now, it's not the best idea or most convenient for most people to go with battery powered equipment. There are several reasons for this but most of it boils down to the battery technology, capacity, and lifespan just isn't there and it's not where it should be especially for 2023. To be...

Heck, this was nothing. Some of the threads get revived years later but that's okay because it keeps people finding them when they search on things especially on the forums that have been around a long long time and that way people learn things.

True, and it's been a while for this thread but I believe it was a twin he was working on and those don't have the compressor release spring and finger and weight built into the camshaft like the single cylinders do.

From what I gather, many of these engines come to the manufacturer of the machine with simply the pipe plug stuck in them and often one on each side because they have multiple drains. They probably come with the foot drain thing that Briggs has used for a long time in a little bag with the...

It was the lines. Those fuel pumps hardly ever go bad and if they do they usually leak oil or gas all over the place and you know it. I hope you ordered one online for under $10 shipped and didn't buy one at a local parts store paying 50 or 80% more. These things are fairly generic and you do...

You can forget about wasting the time adjusting the valves for now. If it started and ran a little bit ago then it's not really a problem with the valves despite the fact they're probably looser than they should be cuz that's what they do but not a big deal until it gets hard to crank over. The...

Like I said, that's what I've done a lot because I just don't want to take the time to mess with them and I really don't like to hose people on the labor for just an install but you know time is time. As far as El cheapo, I don't know what model pump you're dealing with or unit but pretty much...

I feel you. Starting last year I lowered my stress level a lot with my shop I no longer taking everything that everyone wants to bring me. I streamlined the type of equipment I work on so now I turn down more than I actually take or about 50/50. For those pressure washers, I've been telling...

No reason to leave and no reason to ignore anybody. You do it your way and he will do it his. I'll probably do it a third different way and we'll probably all three get the same end result that fixes the problem and that's really all that matters. What matters to us individually it takes or how...

Typically, in that situation, it is the clutch switch. I'm not really a fan of bypassing that switch even for test purposes because it just usually doesn't go bad that often. Normally it's on an MTD especially bolens or yard machines or a John Deere where the plunger isn't getting pushed in...

I still think your carb bowl is getting low/running out of fuel after it sits. If low flow was the problem, it would not run good after you get it started. I always run my fingers around a bowl and in bottom after it's been parked for a few hours to see if fingers get wet from leaking gas.