I got this lawn mower from a neighbour.
It is 2013 model Craftsman with Briggs Stratton engine 6.75hp.
Briggs Stratton Engine serial 13 0218 56 80932
Craftsman model : 944.363230
This is self propelled 4 stroke mower with autochoke (no primer ball).
I am not very familiar with this technology. I used to use electric lawn mowers.
I have removed old gas and added new one.
Spark plug is good. Also tried the new sparkplug.
It does spark ok.
I cleaned the carb with carb cleaner. It was very clean before I cleaned it very well.
Air filter was very dusty/dirty. I cleaned it as well.
There is a little gasket between carburetor and air filter housing and that gasket cracked on upper right hand side.
This lawn mower looks like a new one but I can't get it to start.
I tried spraying a bit carb cleaner in the whole where the carburetor was (when I was cleaning this carburetor) and engine started for two seconds.
Then I put everything back together and sprayed carb cleaner in the intake via air filter and try to start and the engine does not want to turn over at all.
----------my questions are the following ------------
1. is this engine good and how to test it?
2. why spraying carb cleaner in the carb hole without carb I was able to get engine to turn over but putting carb on then spraying again did not work ?
3. Is this bad carburetor or what ?
Any idea? I need some help with this lawn mower.
In advance thanks to all.
