Walbro carburetor
I have a lawn tractor with a Briggs and stratton 14.5hp engine. This has a Walbro LMS carburetor. I put the machine away last week and it was working fine. However when I try and start it today although the engine ran at first it had only enough power to drive the machine along slowly. Now it just seems to stall when I apply the throttle. I have tried adjusting the carb with no luck. Looking into the carb when running it seems to be giving far too much fuel. I have cleaned out the carb but didn't make any difference. There is a solenoid at the bottom of the carb could this be the problem? I am told the carb was recenty replaced when I bought the machine. |
Walbro carburetor
the solinoid cuts all the fuel flow off if its bad.i suspect the inlet
needle isnt closing ,probably a peice of dirt in it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.minibite.com/america/malone.htm |
Walbro carburetor
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Walbro carburetor
my response was correct. but id rather be an idiot than a pompus ass
with no manners. ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.minibite.com/america/malone.htm |
Walbro carburetor
On Sep 26, 2:25*pm, wrote:
*my response was correct. but id rather be an idiot than a pompus ass with no manners. ----------------------------------------------------------------http://www.minibite.com/america/malone.htm Its sole purpose is to reduce or eliminate backfireing when you shut the engine off. Most folks do not even bother to drop engine speed to idle, and just turn it off. The builtup rpms continue to pull fuel into thr engines combustion chamber and it ignites from heat buildup not ignition spark. Since this form of ignition is not dependant on where the valves are at (open closed etc) its easy to push raw fuel into the muffler as well and when it does igniote it can bust the muffler and do other damage to motor as well. You can get my without a functioning solenoid onthe fuelbowl if you idle down the engine for a bit before shutting it off. They usually fail in the open position when they fail and usually play no part in preventing an engine form operating properly. Briggs is not the only company that has this issue, its very common more so from engines being run leaner today than they were years past and to newer design specs and fuel specs. Kawasaki engines are / were notorious on the JD line of L & G tractors wth backfiring problems and ruptured mufflers. |
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