My wife's uncle gave us a cub cadet rt65 recently. He bought it new many years ago. It sat in his building for roughly 10 years. Both tires were flat and broke bead locks. It has a Briggs and Stratton engine. I put in inner tubes for the tires. Rather than fight with the carburetor I went ahead and ordered a cheap Chinese one from Amazon. Easy to find one, just need the numbers you can find on the carb. Spent less than $40 for tubes and carb and less than 30 minutes of work to have it running like new. Just a thought/suggestion about having to mess with the carb again if you need. Yeah i could have rebuilt it and cleaned it myself but for around $20 or so i got a new one along with a new air filter and spark plug. Was much quicker just pulling off the old one and throwing the new one on. I think the time it saved was worth more than the little i spent.
My wife's uncle gave us a cub cadet rt65 recently. He bought it new many years ago. It sat in his building for roughly 10 years. Both tires were flat and broke bead locks. It has a Briggs and Stratton engine.
I put in inner tubes for the tires. Rather than fight with the carburetor I went ahead and ordered a cheap Chinese one from Amazon. Easy to find one, just need the numbers you can find on the carb.
Spent less than $40 for tubes and carb and less than 30 minutes of work to have it running like new.
Just a thought/suggestion about having to mess with the carb again if you need. Yeah i could have rebuilt it and cleaned it myself but for around $20 or so i got a new one along with a new air filter and spark plug. Was much quicker just pulling off the old one and throwing the new one on. I think the time it saved was worth more than the little i spent.