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  1. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    since the engine starts up right away and then his struggles with explosions hunting and surging I revisited the flywheel and I notice the flywheel key is sticking out higher than the drive shaft. Also without specialized tools I can't get the flywheel off. So I have the Briggs& Stratton...
  2. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Well you can't put the muffler back without taking off the cylinder head.
  3. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    So it's the sheet metal screw gone into metal and that's it. Nothing fancy. No adhesives nothing
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    About 3 weeks ago when this adventure began, the exhaust pipe got so hot. The weld separated to the muffler so I have four sheet metal screws. Nothing fancy. No it's red lock and I'm going to see if whatever is wrong with the engine and hopefully just the carburetor is the problem how this...
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Since I put the high temperature gasket sealant in, I decided I would test her right now even though it's less than 24 hours for the curing temperature outside because it's in the sun sun. It's probably 120°. F so if it leaked then I had a solution for that. So far it's not leaking but what I...
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    It seems like the top and the vertical sides for the high temperature red gasket sealant should be okay but either later today or tomorrow morning. I'm thinking of removing all the the red gasket material from the bottom horizontal edge and using a paper towel dry up as much oil in that area and...
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Forest, I am sorry you replied to what was going on say a week ago and I thought it was engine related at that time but this is July 2nd issue and it's definitely oil coming from inside the cylinder head seeping past The gasket from say 8:30 in the morning but I removed all that and I started...
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    So maybe 15 minutes ago I went out and I tightened it just a little bit more. I didn't see any oil leaking even though it's still carrying so I'm trying to figure out. If I run it tomorrow and there's oil leaking then it'll be coming out of the bottom and then I'm thinking this time put paper...
  9. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    This is from 9:30 a.m. today July 2nd. The throttle linkage is definitely behaving a lot better and then I discovered the oil dripping after I shut it down, but seems like it's going in the forward direction in a good way Jim
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Oh shoot! So what do I do now? It's been an hour and it was pressed in. I pressed it in like I said and then I realized it was still dripping oil. That is about experience. I had no clue that was going to happen but I'm guessing the silicone prevented further oil from seeping out. Not sure on...
  11. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Thanks for those directions. I actually took a screenshot right before I applied it but one thing I did notice as after I waited a bit I pressed it into the cylinder and I noticed that oil was still dripping from inside the valve area so it was too late. I already pressed it in. Do you think...
  12. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    I just realized how many products that company sells to be clear product I own is called ultra red and can handle temperatures up to 750° f Permatex
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    I went out this morning and I cleaned up the cylinder head and the valve cover gasket of that red sealant and I replaced that with this cardboard like valve cover gasket. I didn't like it from the get-go but I somehow bought four of them so I can tell you that leaks. So based on il engine the...
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    That's interesting about the flywheel key. I know a lot of companies, for example, build knowledge, bases, and from what I learned is if you have a machine that's running in any condition and you change the flywheel key and then it won't start it all. You shared the flywheel key instantly. As...
  15. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Thanks Mark. The machine you see here was giving it to me for free. It was blowing oil out of the exhaust and within a matter of a few days I had it running as good as it possibly could be. That was 3 years ago. Now I'm struggling for like 15 days just to get it to run. I have some videos of the...
  16. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    This is the latest. So far the only thing he can't see is the muffler area and there is no muffler that overheated and broke but 3/4 of the way in the engine starts struggling and it has some hunting and surging. Also the engine sounds kind of tinny. Maybe with all the stuff missing could be the...
  17. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Yeah that's the one I used. The one you mentioned I didn't know it was 24 hours. I probably knew that a couple weeks ago, but I guess the good news is nothing very serious is leaking and it sounds like the engine is trying to smooth itself out, but it's still kind of erratic but the throttle...
  18. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Okay, from what I can tell it really is leaking from the valve cover which is sort of a relief that it's not something else
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    So I use some of that high temperature red sealant and I locked down the valve cover but yet there's oil dripping directly below the valve cover and I can't figure out where it's coming from. Meaning maybe the cylinder head? Maybe the block itself? J8m
  20. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    I try to adjust the carburetor while it's running with that that engine housing on and I couldn't do it but with the engine housing off it's doing the hunting and surging thing again and it sounds like it might even be banging. It just doesn't sound right. And the throttle. So the throttle...
  21. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Okay got it on those issues I did read if you run it too. Lean it gets too hot so I'm going to fix that a little at a time. When I had the flywheel off I was going to inspect that breather assembly but that didn't happen. Hoping whatever hunting and surging is going on is 100% carburetor that I...
  22. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    What I'm trying to say is it's better to have one person telling you or a couple then reading a million different articles. That's what I'm trying to say because it turns out to be a million different things
  23. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    So I just was reading many articles on running hot and obviously was not a single person telling you you have a million different things. But I'm wondering first of all it could be running too lean and then the air filter. There is none right now so maybe the breather tube? And I wonder about...
  24. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    So the temperature of the exhaust pipe is about 800° f and the plastic fins are broken and I did not put the the shroud around the engine but I'm not exactly making it work hard. It's just sitting there running. It is starting to exhibit the hunting and surging issue from say 2 weeks ago and...
  25. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Lower left corner of the valve cover has some oil dripping. The valve cover is not a perfect seal but could there be something else going on?
  26. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    ILengine thanks for your help on this so far it's the success if I have a damaged flywheel fan and I certainly don't want to screw off anything that I spent about 16 days trying to fix, but I'm wondering if it can cut? Say maybe 800 square feet without blowing up. Definitely got to order...
  27. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    So I tightened it up to about 100 foot pounds. And then it wouldn't restart. I thought shared the flywheel key again but I decided at that point even after torquing it to torque it a little bit more. It's pretty much up near 100. It's an old school torque device
  28. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    It runs it skips here and there no more banging noise. Maybe a slight hunt and surge. I have not adjusted the fuel air mixture screw nor the idle screw. Jim
  29. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    ILengine thanks for your help and all this. I can say it's pretty wet outside and tomorrow morning I'm going to be trying and get everything going. But the only other question is, do you recall a stand-alone washer that sits on top in some order before the actual bolt? I do see how the bolt that...
  30. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Thanks IEngine
  31. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    You know I vaguely remember that from 3 years ago. I'm going to go back to that spec. Apparently 80 ft lb is incorrect. I also figured out my flywheel is tapered and from this other website entirely the guys saying it's mostly for positioning for the initial installation and he said you could...
  32. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Mark Mark, yes, as far as the blade, I don't think that's an issue at all because the PTO clutches off, but I could freely spend the blades just to make sure there's nothing going on down there. But generally speaking, they're not an issue unless you decide to engage the PTO clutch, but I will...
  33. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    And of course I find this. After I make posts to this forum. I got to figure out which one I have.
  34. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    I found this in another form and I'm pretty sure the issue about taper applies to this engine completely. So having said that, I'm wondering if I just use the flywheel keys that I bought already rather than buying the specific model number that Briggs and Stratton recommends. This is kind of...
  35. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    I didn't see your reply the first time around and I see what you're saying and I'll have to reread it. But what are your thoughts about using in theory the correct length? But according to Briggs& Stratton I bought three of the wrong kind even though they're a half inch long? Thanks, Jim
  36. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    796335 Is what I should have ordered. I think it's the original Briggs& Stratton part. This one is listed as a 1/2 in Long and maybe I need to order that one. I have no clue if the other two I have which are not the right model is why it's sheered a few days ago
  37. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Briggs& Stratton 5002k Is what I ordered about a week ago and the only thing I could say is they're about a half inch long. Your choices are a half inch long or I think 1 in long. So the one I had for 3 years and it's probably still good but I can't find it is one half inch long so I got the...
  38. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    So obviously the flywheel key is sheered so there has to be reasons for that and it probably happened the very first time a few days ago after I put the flywheel back so it probably broke pretty quickly. So there has to be a reason for that. I'm going to say one reason might be I didn't torque...
  39. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Oh I think I see what you did. You measured the amount of movement the difference and you came up with 1 cm where I was giving absolute coordinates more or less. So yes they both travel about 1 cm just like yours travels about 1 cm. I think that's what you're saying now. I misread it
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    Actually before I do that so I mentioned above that when The rod for the intake travels back inside the engine. The distance to that plate is 2 cm. It only goes in as far as 2 cm. You're telling me yours travel s in to the 1 CM Mark. Where is mine does not. Do you think that's a problem? Jim
  41. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    IL engine thanks so much. So I haven't taken off the flywheel. But like I said I'm not a mechanic and I don't spend a lot of time with this us. Although over the course of say 50 years I have spent a lot of time on this but the only thing left is in your opinion and for now is it take off the...
  42. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    I was able to crop the image and this would be the intake valve and it might be hard to see the number 3 cm but you can clearly see 4 cm. So that's how far away from the cylinder Head that the rocker arm travels so like I said it travels 3 cm away from the engine as measured from the flat plate...
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    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    I'm not sure if this is always a rule but I believe when the Piston is at top dead center The rocker arms are exactly the same distance from the cylinder head plate and then it seems like the intake valve has a rocker arm that pushes the Piston rod out a little further than on the exhaust valve
  44. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    I don't know what happened to my last post but I can absolutely say the intake valve which is the bottom one. The maximum travel of the rocker arm tap that intersection is exactly 3 cm
  45. J

    Briggs& Stratton engine will not turn over

    I got to go back outside. I know the bottom one is the intake and the upper one is the exhaust. I just got to make sure that I didn't switch the labeling. The dimensions are correct. I just don't know if I made a mistake with the labels
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