Toro Mower with Tecumseh carburetor leaking gas

[slomo]

Keep using real 100% gas and stabilizer year round. You will never have carb issues again. Especially if you install a good paper filter and a shut off valve inline to the carb.

On your front cover, there were a couple screws holding it down.

Next time use Diesel to clean the carb. It's oil based and will not hurt o-ring seals and needle and seats (rubber or plastic parts). Also use a bristle or two from a stiff brush with PLASTIC bristles for probing/cleaning out main jets and pilot jets. Do NOT use any form of steel wire like torch cleaning sticks or bailing wire. Those carb parts are brass and can/will be enlarged with the harder steel wire.




No need to be so abrasive in helping a fellow human.

slomo

 

[Rivets]

The belt drive cover gets screwed on from the bottom.

 

[upupandaway]

...or debris will end up tangeled in the belt.....

No offense but you never saw grass packed under that shield?? It always accumulates there - include this owners mower as seen in his pic, just not so bad yet.

 

[slomo]

On the front cover, no doubt it is there for safety reasons. But if you left it off, you could clean around the pulley after mowing. Also should help drop the grass out better with the cover off while mowing. Safety first......

slomo

 

[bertsmobile1]

No offense but you never saw grass packed under that shield?? It always accumulates there - include this owners mower as seen in his pic, just not so bad yet.

Yes there will be clippinga accumulated there but they will be small enough to get betweenthe mower & the cover and big things like sticks, stones & seed nuts.
OTOH it is your mower. your belts & your pulleys

 

[angellonewolf]

the seal is prob rubber and spraying with carb cleaner poss has damaged it

as above yes replace the carb im assuming for £13 bucks its aftermarket but if it gets it running it will do

if me id then buy the service kit once you know its working and proved its fine and rebuild the original then replace and keep the aftermarket one as a spare