Older small engines....

AJ/FormS said
Once you get that carb cleaned and rebuilt, if it wont idle, dont tear your hair out looking for why,cause Ill tell you a secret;there is/may be, at the end of that brass tube that pokes down through the float, a very tiny orifice that serves as the idle jet. If it is plugged and you didnt know that it was there you might never see it.Dont ask me how I know. If you buy a kit that tube is usually included. If not you will have to hunt for it(the hole).You may need a magnifying glass. The hole is less than maybe .020 inch. Not all Briggs have that orifice, just the bigger(like auger motors) ones. Try not to enlarge it. I use number drills.......But if it idles the passage/orifice is working.Best of luck to you.

Thanks for this bit of info. I looked at the coil, one side was just about touching, the other side was way of it. It is sitting out there with the cover off of it waiting for me to get back out there....Before I go to fire it up next time I may take a look at the karbanator again...just to check the idle jet. Thanks again Sir...

goldduster318 said
It might be time to just clank down $99 and convert it to a Harbor Freight Predator 212cc. I did that to my old Toro 421 Snowblower and I couldn't be happier. Excellent power and not finicky at all. It started at 5 degrees last winter on one pull.

Have thought about this. May go ask Jim if he is ever going to want it back before I go this route, be my like the day after I put a new motor on it he will want it back :banghead:
Ever since I borrowed it have not been real thrilled about it runs. Does not really idle, more like a high idle. Messed around with it and discovered the shaft on the karbanator is beyond loose. So needless to say it stutters and stumbles a bit.

66 Dartman said
Man did ya get vid???

Sadly I did not, Sorry. :wack: