Hello!
Long story short, acquaintances neighbor had a nice craftsman rider that just stopped, smoked and wouldn't crank, decided to throw it away. Work acquaintance grabbed it, and now I have it.
It sounded like hydrolock and sure enough fuel had gotten into the combustion chamber.
- I removed the fuel line to carb, drained the fuel from the combustion chamber, and drained the oil.
- Topped off the oil, dried the plug, added fuel back and the beauty cranked almost immediately. Drove around fine. (I had removed the deck prior to this just for more ease of access and to look for anything damaged.
From my reading, I guess the needle where the float valve resides erodes over time and allows fuel to wash into the cylinder, or the solenoid also could be bad.
I come back thirty minutes later(was searching for parts) and fuel had entered the cylinder and the carb was leaking at the gasket.
Instead of rebuilding, I was just going to buy another carb. My engine is model 531877 2371 g5, and this appears to be the newest iteration of my carb, Briggs and Stratton 594601 Carburetor
I was also going to throw a fuel cut off valve in line before the carb.
My main goal of this thread was to make sure I wasn't overlooking anything. I am not to familiar with carburetors and wanted to run my findings by those more proficient before I dropped $100 on a new carb.
Thanks for your time!
Long story short, acquaintances neighbor had a nice craftsman rider that just stopped, smoked and wouldn't crank, decided to throw it away. Work acquaintance grabbed it, and now I have it.
It sounded like hydrolock and sure enough fuel had gotten into the combustion chamber.
- I removed the fuel line to carb, drained the fuel from the combustion chamber, and drained the oil.
- Topped off the oil, dried the plug, added fuel back and the beauty cranked almost immediately. Drove around fine. (I had removed the deck prior to this just for more ease of access and to look for anything damaged.
From my reading, I guess the needle where the float valve resides erodes over time and allows fuel to wash into the cylinder, or the solenoid also could be bad.
I come back thirty minutes later(was searching for parts) and fuel had entered the cylinder and the carb was leaking at the gasket.
Instead of rebuilding, I was just going to buy another carb. My engine is model 531877 2371 g5, and this appears to be the newest iteration of my carb, Briggs and Stratton 594601 Carburetor
I was also going to throw a fuel cut off valve in line before the carb.
My main goal of this thread was to make sure I wasn't overlooking anything. I am not to familiar with carburetors and wanted to run my findings by those more proficient before I dropped $100 on a new carb.
Thanks for your time!