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The carb is clean as a whistle. Even the bowl had almost nothing in it. The valves were at about .06. So I didn't mess with them.

Hello PTmowermec, Even though you disconnected the coil kill wires, the anti-backfire still has the ability to shut off the fuel in the...

Tried your suggestion but, nothing changed. But I have a side question about what happened when I tried this. With the wires...

Oh lord. I hope not.

First thing I would do is clean carburetor, run and test under load. That doesn’t do it, check/adjust valves.

Disconnect the shut off wire on both coils and see how it runs. The coil shut off wire has tiny diodes that will go bad and create cross...

407777 0188 B1 On a service call, started out, this thing ran like crap. Lot's of back firing through the exhaust. After about 10...

Total gimmick. Nothing beats lifting the mower and occasionally scraping the underside of deck. Unfortunately, almost all my customers...

Wire brush on a stick ;)

I sure miss my old parts girl at O'Reilly's. She came from Car Quest from back in the 90's. Sharp as a tack with parts & part numbers...

I was at a NAPA and the young girl store manager didn't know what a tapered roller bearing was and i showed her how to use the digital...

After I confirmed that the pulley I needed was a V pulley, it clicked as to why there was no B dimension. IMO, the parts person...

Hi, Tiger, Small Engine, What is worse is when you walk in with the machine information and the actual part in hand and they say: "my...

The point of this entire discussion is that customer service in general, has gone down. From fast food to freight and everything in...

On my own mower, I have a file that I keep that sort of info in. Including an updated list on the parts I've replaced. I used to do...