Howdy y'all. I'm new here and was hoping to get some advice on carbs on Tecs.
I have a love hate relationship with tecumseh engines, I rescued a couple old ones being thrown out at my high school a couple years ago. Every single one had a messed up carby, but the engines themselves (snowblower engines, mind you.) were in perfect shape with the factory cross hatching and everything. Even snagged a brand new one that was disassembled by the autoshop class and tossed away.
So on to my main issue. I've re-purposed many of the engines I rescued, two of them are on mountain bikes (HS40, AH600), another is powering a makeshift arc welder (HM80). One of them is on a snowblower I rescued from my school (HSK50).
and all of them take 20 pulls to start
It doesnt help that the recoils break every 5 pulls, ESPECIALLY THE OLD STYLE ONES!
All their carbs have been thoroughly cleaned and 2 of the engines have brand new carbs!
Priming the engines just causes them to fire and sputter to a stop, Rinse and repeat until it warms up enough to stay running. They ARE stored with gas in them, but the engines are used year round and there's NO way the gas is getting stale in there. It just seems after a week or so they just dont wanna start up easily.
I have a Briggs quantum lawnmower and it gets stored with gas in it for the entire winter. And when its time to pull it out 6 months later. Prime 3 times and one pull. Without even refueling. HOW CAN IT DO THIS? WHAT MAKES IT SO MUCH MORE RELIABLE?! THE CARB DESIGN IS EXTREMELY SIMILAR TO THE TEC CARBS yet it doesnt clog up or give the slightest bit of trouble for the past 15 years/ Meanwhile a tecumseh with 5 hours total on it wont start up even when its already warm
I stored my AH600 indoors for 6 months with the gas fully drained from the bowl and tank. The result? It rusted to crap and the float had a hole in it. upon trying to replace the float, the float pin holder thing snapped off the carb body, the jets were clogged with rusticles.
Guys I can't do this anymore, There must be a better solution. Has anyone ever replaced the carb on a tec with a Briggs carby or walbro or SOMETHING that can turn my engines into one pull wonders, or even 3 pull starts??
I have a love hate relationship with tecumseh engines, I rescued a couple old ones being thrown out at my high school a couple years ago. Every single one had a messed up carby, but the engines themselves (snowblower engines, mind you.) were in perfect shape with the factory cross hatching and everything. Even snagged a brand new one that was disassembled by the autoshop class and tossed away.
So on to my main issue. I've re-purposed many of the engines I rescued, two of them are on mountain bikes (HS40, AH600), another is powering a makeshift arc welder (HM80). One of them is on a snowblower I rescued from my school (HSK50).
and all of them take 20 pulls to start
It doesnt help that the recoils break every 5 pulls, ESPECIALLY THE OLD STYLE ONES!
All their carbs have been thoroughly cleaned and 2 of the engines have brand new carbs!
Priming the engines just causes them to fire and sputter to a stop, Rinse and repeat until it warms up enough to stay running. They ARE stored with gas in them, but the engines are used year round and there's NO way the gas is getting stale in there. It just seems after a week or so they just dont wanna start up easily.
I have a Briggs quantum lawnmower and it gets stored with gas in it for the entire winter. And when its time to pull it out 6 months later. Prime 3 times and one pull. Without even refueling. HOW CAN IT DO THIS? WHAT MAKES IT SO MUCH MORE RELIABLE?! THE CARB DESIGN IS EXTREMELY SIMILAR TO THE TEC CARBS yet it doesnt clog up or give the slightest bit of trouble for the past 15 years/ Meanwhile a tecumseh with 5 hours total on it wont start up even when its already warm
I stored my AH600 indoors for 6 months with the gas fully drained from the bowl and tank. The result? It rusted to crap and the float had a hole in it. upon trying to replace the float, the float pin holder thing snapped off the carb body, the jets were clogged with rusticles.
Guys I can't do this anymore, There must be a better solution. Has anyone ever replaced the carb on a tec with a Briggs carby or walbro or SOMETHING that can turn my engines into one pull wonders, or even 3 pull starts??