briggs and stratton carb hard starting

[bigge31566]

I have a Bunton mower with 31hp briggs stratton lcg engine and i have to always manual choke to start but lately if is sits long it is hard to get gas back to carb. It has a briggs stratton 825232 carb and wonder is it a check valve in it, once the mower cranks it runs find, just really bad cold starts

 

[Scrubcadet10]

More than likely the check valve went "bad" not sure tho.

 

[zman111666]

Hello. Briggs part number 825232 shows to be the fuel pump, not the carb. Maybe you mixed the numbers up?

 

[bigge31566]

Hello. Briggs part number 825232 shows to be the fuel pump, not the carb. Maybe you mixed the numbers up?

It is the fuel pump number but I think its the fuel pump that is causing the carb to be hard to start, seems it looses prime