Recent content by Forest#2

You are running that engine too long without the fan and shroud. From cold start up the engine should not be run over 15 seconds. You need to stop playing with it until you get a cooling fan on it. If you need to run it longer than 15 seconds install the shroud. You say you don't want to spend...

These are steel bolts going into aluminum. Be careful on the front one. If it twists off you will be depressed. They are not user friendly to remove AFTER THEY TWIST OFF. May have to just operate the machine without any brakes. Antisieze is a good thing when going back with the bolts I've made...

A Briggs and Stratton engine service manual is a good thing. Has lots of pictures and one picture is worth a thousand words. I see 14 pages of questions and answers. (but I did not read every page) What is your latest concern? Is your engine running yet?

Maybe, yes.

If you disconnected the single kill wire at the kill switch area and it run ok the diodes are ok, it's the kill switch wire area being grounded. If you had to disconnect each wire at the coils to get a run then one or both isolation diodes are probably bad. They are not EASY to replace but you...

I actually DID do just that, with no change... when it fires, it revs out of control. I recently had same problem as you with one of those twin Inteks. It was a new to me engine that had bad carb plus other things and people had be flogging the engine creating numerous issues.. When I got it...

To see if the governor on that OHV twin Intek do a static governor adjust but INSTEAD OF rotating the governor shaft in same direction as the governor arm, hole the carb throttle open and TURN THE GOVERNOR SHAFT CCW OR IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. If the internal engine governor is operating and...