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I will have to say for future reference, you should never drill the Jets in these at all. That very common newer black plastic top Troy-Bilt 4 cycle carburetor with no mixture adjustments at all does not tolerate being drilled or even having a wire run through it.. You may get by if you...

It will only temporarily fix the machine now. It will not solve the problem as you will never solve the problem with these cheap Troy-Bilt backpack blowers.

Before you ever consider buying any parts for it like piston ring etc you should just wipe it down nicely and sell it on marketplace and take the first decent amount which I would say would be 25 to $50 from it and put that towards buying another used piece of equipment that's better or a new...

Well, now that we have established from reading through the post that you are a long cutting service or landscaping etc, we can give better advice. You can always change it later because the shirts are going to wear out I need to be replaced and three or four years anyways. But I would agree...

Going to start seeing more and more esp factory original ones. They have had AGM for motorcycles for a long time now but people often buy the cheaper replacements that are flooded old style when they need one.

In the US, you would be hard-pressed to find a standard riding mower or lawn tractor and someone's household possessions that has anything other than a cheap flooded cell battery. They run them on sale every season for between 16.99 and 19.99 and these of course are the cheapest little 1:45 to...

Yes, I am usually quite talkative and can write many novels or more accurately short stories on about anything but sometimes when the thing is just a circular conversation it's not really solving any problem whatsoever or someone is looking for an answer to a non problem or they have specific...

Yes, but not as much as your statement may lead people to believe and also not much for your typical lawn and garden battery that fits a riding lawn mower that most people are talking about in this thread. Those have changed very little since well 1970 or whenever. Sure, it's possible to buy an...

So much effort, time, energy and words wasted on this entire thread for some apparent hang up over wanting an oem walbro which is completely unnecessary. I prefer that carb over a Nikki but again it makes no difference.. This problem could have all been solved and the more could have been...

For most people, grass ends up being whatever grass they happen to have in their lawn. For some, calling it a lawn is a stretch. LOL Grass berries differently around the country or even the world I assume but you get what you get. Other people's types of grass may be different than what I am...

Nah, no parts needed. Just more or better lube. The "seals" are pretty lame at sealing even if new. IIRC they are only on one side. I will again say people should keep water and hoses and pressure washers fat away from mowers.

I find that to be way safety cautious and a stretch to possibly have an issue. You have to really overcharge a battery, or have a really weak one and a higher charging rate to gas any amount relevant. Tenders don't do this by design. I would have no concerns with half a dozen mower batteries on...

It doesn't matter. Plenty of the IPLs for Briggs 28xxxx and 31xxxx engines show high in the IPL because they could come with either. Any old laying around scrap mower engine with the similar carb can be fitted right on.

True about those bolts, but there is no reason for those things to be that tight.

Personally, I don't think it makes much difference. I doubt they're warning is really anything of significance but more just a covering all basis situation because it might not be good for the computer controlled ECM or whatever it has wired in for the EFI for hooking any charger to it not just...

Well, for a good number of years many Briggs engines came with either a Nikki or a Walbro. I far prefer the walbro. I find it to be a simpler carb. It's also easier to get individual parts for as Briggs didn't always have the needle valve or the plastic internal assembly for the Nikki but you...

What do you mean when you say the aftermarket carbs typically have about a 75% failure rate?

For most people, dirt and water or at least moisture will certainly be getting back into the bearing area. Lol That's a lot of the problem to begin with. In many areas, it's always very damn once you start cutting the grass and then you have people who get water hoses near their lawn mowers...

While some things aren't a bad idea to do after a long amount of service and years, I cannot agree that it's even necessary to disassemble the shaft or bushings etc after 10 years or some other arbitrary timeframe. I am not a Honda dealer but I have seen hundreds of these mowers and thousands of...

While some things aren't a bad idea to do after a long amount of service and years, I cannot agree that it's even necessary to disassemble the shaft or bushings etc after 10 years or some other arbitrary timeframe. I am not a Honda dealer but I have seen hundreds of these mowers and thousands of...

However that is not normal or routine maintenance. Nowhere has Honda ever told the homeowner they're supposed to disassemble their transmission or the oil/grease inside of it. I don't even believe they actually go as far as talking about removing a wheel but you can basically prevent this from...

It's absolutely silly and absurd for anyone to be interested in this kind of thing for a lawn mower that's actually used to cut grass. Even the current horsepower ratings we have, even though they're kind of a joke and erroneously high, still have far more power than we need to cut our lawns...

On most of these, if you just take the individual part number for the outer spindle housing itself and type that into a Google or eBay or Amazon search box you will find the complete assemblies that replace it. This isn't always the case as I've seen some gravelies that nobody has made these for...

This is a classic example of why I say it's almost always better to keep the carburetor you have, the original one, has opposed to what so many people do in jumping the gun and buying some aftermarket cheap one or even going and buying an oem one because carburetors typically don't wear out...

Are you taking a can of spray carb cleaner and spraying it for 2 to 3 seconds into the intake and then cranking it with the choke open but engine to full running speed?? This is the only way to check one hand the first thing you should do when a mower comes in that cranks but won't start. You...

As Slomo said, if you run them dry you will end up with rubber Parts like fuel lines cracking earlier than you should and you will need a carburetor repair earlier from the needle and seat not shutting off and flooding out or migrating fuel over into your crankcase so the answer is no! Running...

October 14th of this year? That's nothing. It is funny how people don't come back though. I guess they get what they need and don't care about anything else. Or sometimes I think we offend some people when we point out their mistakes etc and they're just embarrassed or feel like it's...

Someone has switched carbs on that or you got the wrong parts from the engine numbers. The vast majority of vertical crankshaft Briggs & Stratton push mower engines and especially all the Flathead or L heads as they call them have the carb everyone was thinking this is where it has the little...

The first thing is to stop throwing Parts and time at it. You need to have an established diagnostic procedure.. and preferably a logical one that works best. Spraying the car cleaner into the carburetor intake was certainly the first thing to do after making sure the spark plug wire was...

The majority of owner's males that I have seen that mentioned a thorough description of the deck adjustment almost always say to have the front of the deck a little bit lower than the back of the deck.. This is supposed to give the best quality of cut. I have seen some manual say as much as 3/8...

I think I got a little confused by your numbers. You said you had it at 2 1/8 instead of 2 1/2 but you dare not go leaner. Are we talking about turns out from the fully but lightly seated position? That's what we should be talking about and in this situation two and a half is richer than 2 and...

They do not! All they care about is making a product that will have the fewest or at least a negligible number of warranty claims and will get past the warranty and not be too much worse or too much better than the competition. Gone, are the days of people making a product with every intention...

That's good. While as I said I've never had a problem with any of them, it doesn't change my basic troubleshooting. As I mentioned in my other post one of the first things I do after I give the carburetor an external fuel source in the throat of the intake to see if it is mechanically sound is...

I have never had a problem with any of these cheap little round plastic three port pulsator pumps. Whether you buy them from eBay / Amazon or go to the dealer and get a Briggs & Stratton when it makes no difference to me. My thought is you have a restriction somewhere else.. I have seen a number...

You have .5 turns - or 1/2 . .25 or 1/4. Then half of that which would be 1/8 also 45°

That style of a procedure is always worked nicely for me. I have never used a tach for a two-stroke machine. You also have to make sure if it's a string trimmer that you have the line out to the full length right to where the cutters will cut it off so you're getting proper RPM and proper...

Highly unlikely in the OP's case because most likely they are talking about one of the much more common vision statin lawn mowers of the past 25 or so years which don't have that feature anyways.. The engine you pictured is of the mid 80s probably at newest with quite a few different designs in...

The troubleshooting procedure is being done properly so something is being overlooked. When you don't have spark jumping the Gap at a plug, the first basic easy test is to throw a known good plug in there preferably an older dirtier one because it's easier to see the spark if you still don't...

Yes, and more often than not, better ways than what the factory service manual shows. This is often the case where the service manuals show you the basic way to do it which will get the job done or close enough to perfection or maybe even perfection but people who do it all the time typically...

Very true... Most people in the US do seem to forget there is the rest of the world out there. However, when we're making generalized statements in a forum that is mainly in the US it would make sense that most of the statements are regarding equipment that's in the US so it just seems odd when...

Where did I say I hate fuel shut offs? I simply stated a fact that for the most part only Hondas have them in the US. I also stated my experience over thousands and thousands of engines that they seem to make no difference on the smaller push mowers as to whether people have problems with them...

It makes little difference whether a machine has a fuel shut off or not. Some may see it as a nice addition but few even use it even when it's there. Pretty much every push mower in the US market except ones with Honda engines do not have a fuel shut off and traditionally those machines have had...

I don't doubt that but you do realize most of the people in this forum are probably not in Australia right??

But the whole premise of that is completely irrelevant. I don't care what any of them say or any tech manual says. 800 RPM difference in a high revving two-stroke is pretty irrelevant anyways and as your adjusting them you're going to have a lot bigger RPM drop on the lean side and even on the...

Sounds most likely like a coil failing. The typical way they fail is they will get hot in about 12 to 15 minutes and it will just shut down like you turn the key off. It will not restart normally until it cools off for hours and will run the same amount of time again and you can do this every...

You certainly should not have taken the engine apart before you check the easier things first. A lot of these Briggs v-twins do not have a compression release finger like the singles do. The first thing you do on any of these is check the valve adjustment because normally you'll find it's two...

Different type of ear! LOL There's definitely a feel for it just like people who work with a lot of small engines can put a typical push more engine right at the proper RPMs they set them at without a tack whereas the average homeowner has no idea whether they're running it 2,200 RPMs or 4700 RPMs.

Okay, here's the deal. I'm not even going to bother to read that owner's manual or service manual instructions because there's too many variations the way they send the equipment out. You're lucky if you have a low speed and a high speed fuel mixture which obviously you do. Many of the Zama...

I respectfully disagree. I guess it depends on the person or the ear who is listening. The average homeowner or newbie doesn't stand a chance either way so they need to get someone to show them how to do it a few times and then they can figure it out. But you know me, compression testers and...

I'm sure it does but that would be years! I have seen it get dark but still be thin like normal and I've used it even when old and darker with no issues. Peanut butter has a shelf life too. I'm not going to start making apple butter and jelly sandwiches because peanut butter has a shelf life...