Recent content by Richie F

Thank you

Wow I really upset you. Next time I'll be spot on with info. By the way i too try to look up info for people on this forum and other ones too and can spend more than a half hour out of my life doing so.

With some research the model number is 131-650-000. My question is just curiosity and thought someone would say "yeah it's 2 gallons" Thanks for your help with this question.

Being I have a 1988 yard machine finding the correct info for it is rough, Basically what does the fuel tank hold ? This machine is a 12hp Briggs with a 42 inch deck. Thanks.

That orange lever looks like the for the choke, not the adjustment for the throttle cable.

My first thought is the cable is adjusted wrong, at or near the carburetor. It looks like you have a Briggs engine (Model number will help a lot of the machine and engine). There is a pinch style clamp the holds the throttle cable near the carb.

No fuel, no start. You have spark. Sorry but by your comments you really don't understand mechanical things. Find a person by you that can help.

OK will do that.

So would the correct thing to do is install a 20 amp fuse instead of the 7.5 that's in the machine now ? Or leave it as is ?

Looking at a wiring diagram I think I see what your saying. Any charging system goes to the key switch. Say the battery is getting bad and it needs more than 20 amps to charge it, but the fuse will only fail with a higher amp draw than it was designed for. There is no draw. Draw is taking curent...

Please explain that ? Why would the fuse blow, no matter what amps the stator puts out, when the fuse is a protection device ?

Fixing up a 1988 MTD Yard Machine and there is a 7.5 amp fuse in it. Any electrical diagram always shows a 20 amp fuse. Machine starts and runs fine. The only thing I can Google and find is, if there is a short somewhere in the wiring it will blow. So why must it be a 20 amp when the 7.5 does...