This style of gas cap has been used for years and vents through the threads. Just like caps with a hole in the top they do go bad or get plugged. I question whether the choke rod has been bent unless you have been playing with it. Finally, why are you secretive about supplying us with the model and serial numbers. Makes me think you may be in over your head and need us to bail you out. Either way it would have been a lot easier if you would help the technicians with those numbers. Wait, I’ll stop my rant about DIY guys who know more than I do.
Briggs engine on Toro recycler mower is possessed
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Point taken. I will post the actual engine numbers later today. For now, when I looked up parts under the TORO number, it says the engine used on the mower is 104M020010F1. That's the number I used to look up a cap. As for being a DIY guy, I would love to bring it to a shop and have someone fix it, while I sip a margarita. But just rolling this thing into a shop would already exceed the used value of the thing. And I certainly can't afford $500 for a new one.
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Thanks for the diagram!! While I didn't actually measure, I am sure that gap range is about what I accomplished. I was given this mower, which seemed really clean but was reported to have a running problem. Today I looked over the cap and even pried it apart. No vent. No apparent vent in the threads. Interweb shows a similar tank with a vent to the intake, but this mower doesn't have that. I don't think there is a vent in either the tank OR the cap. If the new cap doesn't have a vent, I will just drill a tiny hole or two in the cap in a good place.
No matter what you say, the cap is vented through the threads. Now I know you are a DIY guy who is in over his head when you say I’m going to drill holes in your cap. For your information 104M020010F1 is the engine numbers. 104M02-0010-F1, just missing the code number.