Recent content by TobyU

This is what I first thought of and recommended in my first post, I didn't read all of the entries.. You should be able to order from eBay or Amazon and if they say the brand name is Briggs & Stratton and they show a picture of the package then hopefully it will be a brand name OEM when it comes...

I don't know why this would really be a concern or it could be prevented by making sure you buy the Briggs & Stratton brand part number that comes back to that engine. I wouldn't buy an aftermarket push rod for these. When they come out of a sealed Briggs & Stratton package with the correct part...

I always clean up the heads and they block service very well with a scraper and some Scotch Brite pad sometimes and then I always tighten in the Briggs recommended tightening order in two or three steps and I always use an accurate inch pound torque wrench and tighten to the current Briggs &...

I'm just glad you got it fixed. I have certainly seen Stihl ignition coils that had a timing issue. In fact there was a TSB or something on this a number of years ago. They would run but they were hard to start and they certainly wouldn't run well with stuttering and stammering and what felt...

This isn't a guessing game game show. If you've already fixed it and know what the problem was then tell the whole story up front. Many of us don't have time or enjoy the carrot game. We come here to help people fix problems they can't figure out or two tell them what they're doing wrong or what...

I have a feeling we don't have all the information or if we would have been there as a fly in the wall watching we would have spotted something that we would have been concerned about or said you shouldn't do. Sure, sometimes weird things happen without any good reason but when you've worked on...

I haven't read every post in this thread but I can tell you that it is highly, highly, highly and I mean again highly unlikely for a valve to drop on one of these engines unless somebody has been monkeying around in the valve cover and with stuff they shouldn't be messing with. I saw in a...