Briggs and Stratton Vanguard 18 hp running lean

[slomo]

Get a set of oxy/acet welding tip cleaners, and run them through the main jet particularly, a tiny layer of varnish builds on the inside of the jets reducing its diameter and reduces fuel flow, you can see through the jets and they look clear but are slightly diminished in diameter due to build up. Have had the problem on my own equipment and other folks. Worth a check, works for me. You aren't making/drilling the jets bigger, just scraping off the varnish to bring them to their correct size. Something like these

Carburetor jet cleaner.Also a Tip and nozzle cleaner .Oxy acetylene ,LPG | eBay

Carburetor jet cleaner / Tip and nozzle cleaner.

www.ebay.com.

Torch tip cleaners are abrasive. Meaning they can and will, enlarge any soft brass jet. This leads to a richer running engine and fouled plugs. Not recommended.

Try it on your $70,000 car injectors and see.

slomo

 

[slomo]

Also the name, torch - tip - cleaner means they are made for............ Didn't see carb jets anywhere in the name. Don't be all caveman.

Toothpick or a bristle from a nylon brush.

slomo

 

[Scrubcadet10]

Torch tip cleaners are abrasive. Meaning they can and will, enlarge any soft brass jet. This leads to a richer running engine and fouled plugs. Not recommended.

Try it on your $70,000 car injectors and see.

slomo

Did you try it on your $70K car injectors?

 

[100 td]

Did you try it on your $70K car injectors?

Quite likely eh?

 

[Born2Mow]

Did you try it on your $70K car injectors?

I flew in an Maserati specialist all the way from Milan, Italy.

But he insisted on flossing my injectors with spaghetti !!

 

[Scrubcadet10]

I flew in an Maserati specialist all the way from Milan, Italy.

But he insisted on flossing my injectors with spaghetti !!

LOL!

 

[bertsmobile1]

Torch tip cleaners are FILES
They are not and never have been approved for cleaning jets because if not used with a great deal of finesse they will enlarge jets.
That is what I use them for , ENLARGING jets that run way too lean ( all Cal models ) .
Several years ago some clot who sells junk on Evil Pay had a load of them they could not sell so they listed hem as "carb jet cleaners"
This was then jumped on by all of the Face Book fools who post stuff they have no idea about in a futile attempt to appear to be an intelligent life form above that of slime mould.
Even since then they have become carb cleaners by the strength of urban myths
Now I have been using them for 50 years so have developed a good feel for them but even so I still have accasionally made a round hole oval

 

[Hammermechanicman]

Since oil threads have been beat to death i say we start a new one about torch tip cleaners for passageways and jets. Please check all guns and knives at the door. "My jet cleaner is better than your jet cleaner."??

 

[Scrubcadet10]

Since oil threads have been beat to death i say we start a new one about torch tip cleaners for passageways and jets. Please check all guns and knives at the door. "My jet cleaner is better than your jet cleaner."??

For those really bad jets I use a chainsaw file.

 

[mechanic mark]

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