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I need help. I have an Ariens 20 horse 46" riding mower from 2012. It's ran like a champ every since I bought it new. Now, I started it up, pulled out of the garage and it died while I was driving it out of the garage and off the driveway and will not start back up.

Mower info:

Things I've done since it died.

• Put a new spark plug in it. [(Calls for Champion# RC12YC - obsolete) compatible NGK - BKR5E. 7938 is what I used.] I also found and bought Briggs & Stratton 5092 PN: 496018S.
• Changed the oil and filter. (Briggs & Stratton oil PN: 100028, filter calls for B&S 492932 - obsolete, I used B&S PN: 842921.)
• Checked the fuel solenoid (it is working).
• Pulled the fuel line off of the carburetor. Fuel is going through the fuel filter and getting to the carburetor.
• Sprayed a little starter fluid into the carb air inlet. Where the air filter attaches to.
• Checked for spark. Getting spark to the plug.
• I don't have a compression tester, but the engine sounds to be getting compression when it turns over. Sounds normal.
• I don't see any frayed wires.

Check air filter for replacement. Adjust valves with engine cold page 10 in Manual above. Make sure oil is on full mark on dipstick & gas tank is full with fresh fuel. You have wrong oil filter on engine page 13 in Parts Manual. You need oil filter 492932 .

I meant to post this in the Briggs and Stratton forum. Posted here by mistake. www.briggsandstratton.com is no help, that I can see. Didn't they sell to a Chinese company? I don't know.

any Briggs oil filter will work.

This thread, all 10 pages of it is current in the B & S section
Please do not revive it here as we finally look like some results will eventuate on a problem that should have beed over & done with a long time ago .

hlw49 said:

any Briggs oil filter will work.

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