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Yes, the old ones had the drain plug and if you look on the one you have the aluminum boss is still there they just decided to not drought the hole tap it and insert the pipe plug somewhere back around 97 or so maybe as late as 2001 but somewhere in that vintage they stop putting drain plugs in...

The vibra-tach works fine but is more inconvenient than the cheap digital ones available on eBay and amazon. I can find a picture but don't have one currently. It's a little small black plastic box with a gray window with two buttons on the front. It's about an inch and a half by an inch and a...

I really can't tell enough from those pictures to tell if you have a governor that could work or not. Basically just check it with your finger. Push back against the governor rod as you give it some throttle at the carburetor and if you're getting resistance then that means the internal Governor...

Sometimes, you can do a lot of things but often it's just not worth it. Sure, in some engines you might be able to rotate it to bottom dead center enough to actually try to slide a wrist pin or the circlips out to slide the wrist pin out of the piston and then push it back up and pull the Piston...

I agree with a lot of this but not all of it has been my experience. It doesn't matter that Angie's were designed to handle 10% ethanol are not after a certain year. That just means the rubber and plastic parts are supposed to be a little bit more resistant to deterioration it doesn't have...

I'm not even going to bother to read through all of these comments, opinions, conjecture etc on ethanol because it's really a moot point at this time in history. Making it your mission or goal to only buy pure fuel now is awfully late in the game. It makes me wonder where a person lives or what...

Here's the deal.. Briggs had a number of their early first generation you could say in tech v twins that were wiping out the rings and under 100 hours. They replaced quite a few under warranty but you really had to keep after it and go through the proper channels but by quite a few I mean...

Their official chart states .004-.006 and.005 is right in the middle so that's all good too. Kohler has a similar controversy but it's actually worse because the numbers don't fall exactly in the spec range like the brakes does. For their Kohler courage engines you can look at two different...

That's .004-.006 on both valves on the Briggs OHV twins...per Briggs and Stratton. The singles are .003-.005 intake and .005-.007 exhaust. Both adjusted at 1/4inch past TDC of compression stroke for each cylinder.

Oh, I have certainly read it all! The problem is that was weeks ago. As We know This thread keeps getting revived because of all the notifications to people like myself that pop up in our email and then the link takes a straight to the last post and that is on a separate page which is...

I just noticed that the title says rebuilt engine hard to turn over so obviously something wasn't done right and the rebuild or some parts got interchanged or had the wrong sizes to begin with.

Do you have a history with this engine? You simply can't have an engine that's running fine for 3 years let's say and then it gets hard to crank over and then you find the rod clearance tight and then change the rod and it's okay. The only way this could be possibly possible is it it had been...

And if the forum wasn't set up or displayed and or emailed notifications oddly on mobile device..... A we wouldn't have this issue.

Now this confuses things even more. Unless you had the number one connecting rod somehow installed incorrectly or had a two flipped over and placed in that spot or something weird like that there's no way changing a connecting rod would magically make an engine that's hard to turn over start...

That's certainly how the numbers play out. I have repaired exactly two of the old Kohler mechanical pumps because the little diaphragm just pop out of the plastic and you can stake them back in with a hot screwdriver..

I'm going to estimate that approximately 80 to 90% of fuel pumps that are replaced we're never bad at the first place. It's one of those people throwing Parts at the problem and it rarely fixes the problem...at least not on the first time or two. A pulsator fuel pump is very easy to check. If...

On these Briggs & Stratton engines, head gaskets certainly have everything to do with oil consumption and is the most common reason for oil consumption or usage. The second most common reason for the oil to get low would be leakage and that would typically be around the Briggs & Stratton very...

Just don't idle it down before you drive it to barn. If it's mowing or moving...keep it at full speed. Ok to idle for a few seconds before you shut off switch but no reason to do over 10-30 seconds or so. I don't even check an air filter but maybe 1-2 times a year! Might wear the bolts out and...

Rare but it happens. Even though you have the new design 4 bolt air filter housing, I would make sure dirt is not bypassing and getting the inside of the D hole intake coated with tan dust dirt. That's the most likely way one with only140 hrs could show those issues. Unless it was never right...

The best thing we can do do is simply refuse to work on the off brand ones. If shops all tell people the same thing that "They just aren't worth putting the time and money into due to limited parts availability and non compatibility with the other mainstream brands" People will eventually catch...

I'm just letting you know for future reference that these engines don't need rebuilt or overhauled. It doesn't matter what the rings look like when you pulled it apart etc as most of these things the cylinder bore looks brand new and with even cross hatching still showing no matter when you pull...

Well, if your choke isn't closing it certainly won't start unless you give it some external fuel like you did before. However, even if the joke isn't working properly once you get it started with external fuel it should stay running on its own no problem. Otherwise you have a restricted or at...

As far as plugs for lawn mowers, I don't see there being any problem. I've seen in service thousands of them and just the past three or four years and like I stated before the failure rate or problem rate with a plug is extremely low. It's about 1 in 500 and the big deal about this is we don't...

Exactly! Too many people just throw Parts at them hoping to get it right. They've been doing this with cars for decades too. The sad part is usually by the second or third part they throw at it they luck out and get the car running properly and they still save more money than going to the garage...

Wow! 12 plugs in a season. That's almost unbelievable to me. I agree that you never trust a plug 100% until you see it fire and even then you don't trust it 100%, so you don't trust it 100% until you see it run and if you have a concern about spark you always try another known good or one you're...

Wow I have never actually liked champion plugs for any automobiles other than possibly a Jeep or a Dodge because that's what came in them Factory and they seem to do okay but I would still rather see another brand in those also...they have proved to be simply the Best and the cheapest over the...

No doubt the US has done a lot of stupid things and the future is not looking nearly as good as it was or as it should. MOST of these bad decisions and problems have been due to the lousy mentality of more recent generations or younger people. Those heads in the clouds you mentioned or sand as I...

Well, actually, none of that really makes any difference because the facts of what has occurred in the past really doesn't mean what will happen now or in the future as the further we go in in the present and the future things do seem to change and often quite bizarre from what would make sense...

He will typically only find this on handheld blowers and string trimmers etc. When you're dealing with anything with a four horsepower or larger lawn mower style engine '99.5% of the time it is not the plug and another plug is not going to solve the problem. In the few situations that it may...

I'm sure this is all true in some instances but not always. Generalizations always tend to end up that way. I was kind of making a joke as to the old days for Japan did the same thing like taking a us-made Zippo lighter and then copying it and then selling their cheap copy at a third of the...

As several others of the good troubleshooters have said, always start with giving it an external fuel source by squirting carb cleaner or some gas into the carb hole in the intake to see if it will then run for a few seconds on the fuel you have provided. This is what you do on any of these...

I was just talking about the fact that you can go in to any dealer and buy a Briggs & Stratton needle or Briggs & Stratton seat in the individual little bags for five or six bucks a piece. I've always appreciated that about briggs. As I said Kohler used to be better than they are now now it's a...

Yes, shop efficiency. I believe I mentioned part of that. I think that's why they stopped rebuilding carbs or overhauling them and just started putting new ones on because it was more efficient. Quicker so they could get on to the next one. As I said they make less money from it but they can...

Very true but it seems in this case he just isn't getting enough fuel because it was stated before that he sprays some gas or starting fluid etc into the carb it fires right up, if I am remembering the earlier post correctly. It is, however, possible that there is another minor air leak...

This does happen. Just three or four years ago you couldn't find any Kawasaki replacement carbs on eBay or Amazon for the self-propelled mowers like John Deere 14 SB etc. Even use ones we're going for almost $100 because the cheapest new one was about 138 on Amazon. Then all of a sudden they...

I've only have two of these come in so far and I believe they're sold at menards. Gray with a decent deal of plastic on them and from what I remember black and white logo with a green or blue stripe or something like that but the name does ring a bell. Hopefully you'll be able to bend things...

I'm quite certain you will but if you'll think back to earlier years lawn mowers didn't have hour meters on them and then when they first started doing it they were the analog style which were kind of expensive. Then by the late 90s and right around 2000 the little digital ones were very cheap...

I have a Mow N Machine also. 1992 model. They were made by Grasshopper for many years. You can save some money on parts usually with Grasshopper bring cheaper than Woods but I always check but just to be sure. So far I haven't found anything cheaper in Woods brand that I could get in Grasshopper...

The main problem I see is that the Rust-Oleum is 10.99 per can. Completely unacceptable!!! Their prices started soaring a number of months back and I will probably never buy their paint again. Remember for the past couple of decades their prices had remained good and they had kind of taken over...

Actually, it's not nearly that common to have balancer problems in them. Very few of these engines actually have any catastrophic failures and the most common would be the head gasket and some of them do have the ACR problem on the camshaft but even that's not a high percentage of them but I...

I can certainly understand that. I wish you the best with your new engine. Unfortunately, they don't build things like they used to and heck, these things were being built by around 95 or 97 And they simply weren't built that well. Lol Anyone who is planning on keeping a riding mower for the...

You're absolutely correct. I also operate a motor repair shop and from a Time and Labor standpoint they're not worth doing these repairs. Don't get me wrong, I've done a few but early on when I was less busy. Now I will only do them for like really really extremely good customers or friends and...

It certainly is a design flaw and a refusal to fix it by adding an extra head bolt even if it would extend its tip slightly into the intake runner. I actually think we could probably drill and tap one and solve this problem but never really looked into doing it. I will also agree that it is...

I'm assuming all of that's true without actually watching the video but it's from one of those engineers standpoints. Technically you could break down the circuits into four circuits of a carb like that but people really don't. Sometimes for clarification or educational purposes I will tell...

Not necessarily but you should look into it. The only thing you know for certain is it's not getting enough fuel into the intake when you start it unless you spray the gas in there yourself. You need to get in there and make absolutely certain the choke is shutting all the way because on those...

I replaced a V10 in a 2001 excursion by myself in shorts and flip-flops a few years ago. I don't like doing them but it wasn't really that bad. I was quite amazed that I was able to take the old one out and install the new one without ever removing the hood from the vehicle. I would have bet...

I will agree that the Troy-Bilt and the other Chinese lonesome engines are pretty sad design and actually there's three of those designs on the market right now. I do so many of these a year I've lost track on how many I've done. I did 625 pieces of equipment personally all by myself in 2020...

It's not a matter of how far back out can be adjusted. Only rarely will you have one that won't work at buy choke and stop. Since choke is most important for this situation, you have someone hold the handle control to full choke and then you loosen clamp and move cable outer part until choke is...

Nothing, because that's not going to be the problem. If you adjusted the valves even close when you did it..... They don't get tight on these. They get loose

We have touched on several times in this thread, it is more than likely not getting enough fuel or not being enriched enough by the choke when it's cold. Having said that, I will say that the horizontally opposed twins can often be slow crankers but the coil system on these engines is pretty...