Hello, I am hoping you guys can give me a hand..
I'm trying to help out a friend to get his mower running.. He has a Simplicity 38" rider with a Briggs and Stratton 356777 engine. He was having trouble with it staying running so I cleaned the carb for him (just a cleaning, no carb kit). It then ran fine for 10-15 min before I left his place. While I was there I noticed that the inline fuel filter would only fill up about 1/4 of the way when it was running (full if it sat off for a while). Now it'll sputter, blow smoke and die. He had somebody else look at it and they told him that it wasn't getting enough fuel. They checked the lines and determined that the fuel pump was bad, so he replaced that. Now he says that it still sputters, blows smoke and dies but also blows fuel into the air filter through the brass hole in the upper left corner of the attached photo. He said that when this hole is plugged with your finger, it runs much better..
He lives about an hour away and with my work schedule, I can't get there for a few days. I am also not sure where this brass hole leads to or what it does.. Any ideas what is going on, what this hole is for and what you think the issue with the mower could be??
Thank you
I'm trying to help out a friend to get his mower running.. He has a Simplicity 38" rider with a Briggs and Stratton 356777 engine. He was having trouble with it staying running so I cleaned the carb for him (just a cleaning, no carb kit). It then ran fine for 10-15 min before I left his place. While I was there I noticed that the inline fuel filter would only fill up about 1/4 of the way when it was running (full if it sat off for a while). Now it'll sputter, blow smoke and die. He had somebody else look at it and they told him that it wasn't getting enough fuel. They checked the lines and determined that the fuel pump was bad, so he replaced that. Now he says that it still sputters, blows smoke and dies but also blows fuel into the air filter through the brass hole in the upper left corner of the attached photo. He said that when this hole is plugged with your finger, it runs much better..
He lives about an hour away and with my work schedule, I can't get there for a few days. I am also not sure where this brass hole leads to or what it does.. Any ideas what is going on, what this hole is for and what you think the issue with the mower could be??
Thank you