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I have Briggs engine model 96902. I had lost the linkage connecting the carb to the governor. The link I ordered is part number 260878. This link may not be the correct one. I have attached pics of how it is installed. It keeps choking the mower too much. Help??

Sec. 3, page 12, figure 14 of this manual will help you out. To me it looks like you have all the parts there. After reading the instructions for your carb, come back with any questions. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6NaqjIxWV1ycG8wd0s3Z2Q2X00/view

What is the type number type? needed to verify part number used.

wesleykey said:

Are you kidding? I have several of the 96902 mowers and have bought a ton of parts based on model alone.

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No I am not as I have seen a few oddball setups. I do prefer to look-up the correct IPL to give the correct PN. Some of the 92900 series do use a different linkage. Assuming things makes the old term (a##)(u)(me) correct many times.

But the basic linkage for the 92902 sub series is 262753 which supersedes to 690347 and not the one the OP ordered and installed.

Wesley, are you kidding me? You come here for help and then you po that reply? If you think all engines are the same, and feel the mechanics here ask dumb questions, when we are trying to help you, you know more than we do. We’ve got nothing else to do than type out stupid questions, read the manual I posted out, because I’ve got no more stupid questions and won’t be able to help someone who knows more than me.

IF you have the correct link and spring one end of the spring connects to the loop in the wire link and the other to the speed control lever. There are a couple different linkage setups on that series of engines. Type and code would help narrow it down. An exapmple is the 130232 5hp engine. There are a half dozen or so throttle configurations.

Rivets said:

Wesley, are you kidding me? You come here for help and then you po that reply? If you think all engines are the same, and feel the mechanics here ask dumb questions, when we are trying to help you, you know more than we do. We’ve got nothing else to do than type out stupid questions, read the manual I posted out, because I’ve got no more stupid questions and won’t be able to help someone who knows more than me.

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Rivets, I had customers to argue with a sign post with not a letter on it. BTW I got got a brother like Wesklykey that thinks he knows it all. One day I was in the middle of rebuilding his Torqflite 8 automatic transmission when I had to leave on a rush job. I told not the mess with the transmission especially the valve body. Guess what, he took the darn valve body apart while I was gone. Springs and steel balls all over the shop. It took me two days to find them all and I was lucky the shop was nearly empty at the time.

To heard him tell it I know nothing about repairing transmissions and that he knows it all. Now i be the first to admit I don't it all but willing to ask when I need help.

The guy is part of the new generation that wants immediate answers to their problems while putting in as little work on their part as possible. I’ve dealt with teenagers like this for to long and have decided that they need to learn like we did, the hard way, figure it out on your own. To him it would be too much work to go and find the type number, less work to post a reply like he did. I doubt he even opened the manual I posted, because he would have had to read and solve the problem on his own. Hopefully he will learn that the world does not revolve around him. Maybe one day he’ll learn to grab a half dozen donuts and go see an old fart like me at the local repair shop. Most of us would be happy to help the younger generation who want to learn the way we did, get a little grease under your nails, plus assume we just might be street smarter than them.

Back in the old day job i used to have new guys ride with me to teach them stuff. Amazing how much 20 somethings know. I starting working in a bowling alley at 14 and went to the AMF pinspotter school and at 14 i was repairing and maintaining pinspotters and have made a living ever since then with tools in my hands probably since before some of their parents were born and they always thought the old guy was a jerk because he acts like he knows more than them. None of them lasted more than a couple years and i only lasted 40. I will never be the smartest guy in the room but i may not be the dumbest either.

the first engine I ever work on was 56 Oldsmobile . That when I was just in the second grade and I had the bug every since; some 50+ yrs now. I still am learning new things every month. The best advice I give any starting out is to admit when need help and ask for it when needed. There is always be someone that has more experience with a particular out there. And of all things don't fail to give back help when asked.