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You were told wrong. Lol While it may have been someone's personal opinion that it was a waste of time to use sta-bil in ethanol fuel or their point was you'd be better off to get ethanol free fuel and I don't know whether or not they're wanting you to put sta-bil in that or not but the fact is...

Put the comp tester back into the toolbox. It's just not needed. I have fixed 1000s of mower engines and have never screwed one into one. Well, not at the first time when I realized they are not like cars. The only tester you need is your finger If it blows it out nicely, it has enough...

First of all, messing with the governor and adjusting its static adjustment is one of the LAST things you ever do to one of these small engines if it's having a running problem, surging or hunting. Pretty much all of these surging issues are not the governor but rather the carburetor is slightly...

New doesn't mean right... Especially with eBay and even more so amazon carbs. I NEVER recommend replacing carbs as opposed to cleaning it the old ones or fixing them because sometimes the new ones don't run correctly and you are almost always installing a worse quality carb than you are taking...

If it goes back to running but surging and hunting for a proper speed, take you a shot cloth or a microfiber towel and fold it into fourths and lay it for it restricts the intake hole under the air filter. This should reaching up the mixture a little bit or you can also try moving your lever to...

That is a very odd situation if it's that inconsistent. I have never seen one of these that wants the camshaft lobe slipped, that would ever run anywhere near properly or even continue to spend enough to call it running after this happened. It's pretty much like when one gets a bent push rod or...

True but if you adjust the end so it doesn't have so much slack before it actually starts to open the choke and if you lubricate the bottom near the spring area and make sure it's not rubbing against on either side as it moves, they become quite consistent with their opening and closing.

We call that the compression release bump or the ACR bump. The camshaft has an automatic compression release built on to it very close to the intake lifter lobe. At low RPMs it kicks a small little finger out which protrudes out past the base circle of the camshaft in the spot where it's...

I also forgot to mention that we need to get some universal terminology consistent here. The title of your thread says Briggs & Stratton engine won't turn over but it does seem that the engine is turning over and spitting just fine through all of the posts. People often use different terms and...

I assumed from your earlier comment where you were wondering if someone sold you the wrong tension spring, that you understood basically how the system worked. You could be on to something with the spring as it is a very small spring and very weak. As soon as you start the engine, it needs to...

There's a whole lot of jumping around and grasping it straws here throughout the thread. A good diagnostic procedure is almost more important than knowing how to actually do the work to fix one. Lol I think I read through all the highlights of what's been done but it all boils down to you have...

I've seen Toro ZTRs with steering wheels.

I didn't either.... Until I did! I had an aftermarket fall in 17 hrs. No lobes were worn but they were slipping and spinning on the splines that are supposed to hold them in place. Lousy quality metal and likely assembly too. I used a number of aftermarket with no issues but that was several...

That's the style I like. Or put a 90° on the end and put the plug facing the ground so you can just hold a milk jug right up to it and drain your oil.

I'm not sure which part of my statement you're disagreeing with but it's still quite factual. Now, my comment that they are low performance little turds has some opinionated flair to it but they are in fact low performance compared to most any of those motorcycle engines were talking about...

I have never, ever notice any running difference in any two-stroke equipment due to what type of oil was being used. I have noticed a different color of the gas and often more or less smoke coming out the exhaust and sometimes a different smell of the exhaust but never have they run any...

But NEVER at the ratios they recommend. Amsel isn't the first to do this. There was some "super high tech fully synthetic magic oil" one of the lawn mower shops was selling back in the mid 80s for my dad bought some commercial equipment that said no matter what your equipment called for, use...

I too was having to clean out the carburetor bowl on Tecumseh engines back in the seventies and early '80s way before any of the fuel had 10% ethanol in it. You would typically find a big what I call grease bubble floating around but more than likely a water and moisture bubble. Once you dumped...

Keep telling yourself that but trust me it's not the case on most engines and probably not yours either. Have you really used a degree wheel or a timing light with a degree dial to check your total advance? Sure, a lot of us did this on our old hot rods and muscle cars but these engines are not...

Well, first of all carb problems or fuel related issues are never going to cause you to need a new engine! They are simply aggravating. Secondly, I haven't used 1 oz of fuel that didn't have 10% ethanol in it for probably the past 22 years. This is not because I wanted to but because all the...

Yes. iso-heet is the isopropyl one.

Someone who was talking about the computer software and models etc, which is way overkill for this and I doubt it helped them solve their problem at all, was talking about the faster you spin the blade the better. This is not actually true. In the arena we're dealing with it probably is because...

I would have no faith in 1 oz per gallon fixing anything in fact I would guarantee and bet money on that not doing anything. This is why I say I've used it at much greater concentrations because I have gotten results from this. If you found out later it was not fuel related but rather ignition...

All the gas that I have used for well over 15 years is 10% ethanol and I also believe the gas has gotten worse and worse over the years as far as quality BUT I have seen no difference in the lifespan of rubber fuel lines. Now, the clear vinyl ones or the tinted ones etc yellow faster and get...

I have to admit you got my attention with "gals to lay".. but I believe I was thinking something entirely different than what you meant. The picture in my mind would be good for several months of Sundays. Lol

Be very careful about blowing back into the fuel line into the tank. At least always take the gas to cap off before you do this. Then of course be careful fuel doesn't blow out but I had a customer call me about a riding lawn mower who had tried to do just this and with the cap on it pressurized...

Yes, and often even slightly higher than that is acceptable. Even three to four has still gotten a pass for an entire batch in many situations. Different companies do it in different ways. Sometimes if they had a failure rate of over a certain number in a whole run of production, they would pull...

It certainly won't hurt but I find that at the levels they recommend it's not going to do too much too quickly. Most of their recommendations are also pretty vague. Do you remember what it actually said on the bottle? I'm thinking most of these treatments which are like a 12 oz bottle or...

Most of the carburetors have a little drain at the bottom you can stick a hose on and a screw to open to allow fuel to drain out of the bowl. You might be able to drain some of the fuel through like this and shake it around and tilt it towards that side as you're doing it to get a lot of the...

This is exactly the first thing I was able to get such miraculous results on that I have been using it ever since. It was a '79 gs850 motorcycle whose carbs were slightly restricted etc and this stuff did wonders. You have to be careful not to drip anything on the paint though because it can...

It's certainly low percentage wise on the failures but numerically it's way too many as I mentioned in another post. If I had to estimate, I would say it's well under 2% of all these similar Briggs engines and likely closer to a half of a percent. That is quite acceptable by most company...

Yes, percentage-wise it's quite low and probably quite acceptable to their company decision makers. But numerically, it's still too high! In fact, anything over one or two is too high because they didn't have this problem before and then they started having the problem SO should have fixed it...

I don't find this to always be true. I have had no problems with these cheap spindles. They last far longer than they should for the money I've paid for them. Now there are other things I will not buy again. I replace two window regulator assemblies in two different cars a few years ago that I...

That's fine but only IF a person uses quality bearings.. I would venture to say that 95 plus percent of the people do not end up with quality bearings because the average bearing you buy today is also cheap junk. Even though this is the case, I find they still last long enough to be quite...

You could even use MMO in your 2-stroke fuel also as long as you still put the correct amount of oil in it.. It's not going to hurt anything and the ratios that these additives are recommended to be used at is so low it's barely a maintenance dose. If you test berryman's B12 liquid four can...

You are very correct and rarely does hitting anything cause these to shear. What usually does it is somebody messing around with the ignition switch turning it on and off or a flaky switch or even more likely when their seat switch isn't adjusted properly or it's bent or something and they're...

What do you mean by tapers? You mean the Sledge style tapered press fit of the crankshaft into the matching shape on the flywheel?. I don't worry about those getting damaged at all. It makes little difference. Lol Just stick it on and hold it in the right place and tighten it up and actually...

True, but this depends on the situation and also which side of the fence you're on. I have three separate companies and one of them I contract to an organization and that's all paid by check so I'm fine with that. None of them have ever bounced. Lol In one of my other businesses I'm probably at...

Yes, this does work well but technically, just choking it out with your hand makes it draw so much harder on the Jets that this alone and also having some fresh gas in the tank did far more than the atf, or any cleaner was going to do. There are times when one Ron's but surges are needs a little...

He may but I don't. The anecdotal experience someone has told you that they have had good luck with once or twice or maybe even six times does not equate to what some of us have seen thousands and thousands of times over. Marvel's mystery oil is far better to use in the fuel like that than ATF...

I keep looking and it keeps getting worse. I just checked Amazon of course I always tell people Amazon is a terrible place to buy lawn mower parts 90% of the time. This is because you can get a better price and almost always a better selection if you scroll down eBay but there are a couple of...

This is an okay method also but for most of these residential grade riding mowers, the bearings individually will cost you more than just buying the commonly available spindle assembly on eBay or amazon.. I just did a quick search in it does irritate me greatly that they're going for about 32 to...

It's just VERY rare for a Kohler or Honda to shear a key.

Keys usually don't shear on riding mowers and especially not on Kohler engines because they use a steel key from the factory unlike Briggs that uses an aluminum one. I most likely culprit for them shearing would be a flaky seat switch causing the ignition to kick on and off on bombs or if...

It's not worth messing within all the news pretty low quality bearings today. Just don't buy the brand name spindles and buy them online where you can get them super cheaply. The last ones I ordered we're between 9 and 12 dollars a piece shipped to my house. I do always buy the ones that come...

People say a lot of inaccurate crap on the internet. I have taken these bearings out myself and have yet to find one that was open on the inside. They are the most common and cheapest bearings out there with the little rubber press and seal on each side which is designed to keep everything out...

Same here! Mostly cash and a few checks here and there but I don't take plastic at all. We are destroying this country but everyone using plastic. Now since covid and our new normal crap a huge majority of places are starting to add the surcharge onto the customer instead of eating the cost...

You were hardly getting belittled.. lol. People skills are not something on most of our priority lists. I actually had a customer tell me one time after we had just loaded his mower back into his car after just unloading it because he decided he was going to take it somewhere... That I needed...

Sounds like it works well. There are a number of ways to do it. Even when people just go the pipe route, you just have to make the pipe just long enough so it sticks out just past the frame if you're going to put a cap on the pipe which works just fine or you can put a 90° elbow at the end of...

I've never had a single problem with one of them after they were tightened up. They do make it much easier to drain the oil the little standard pipe plug some of them have but it is far better too