Thank you so much. Believe me, 11 years later, your video is exactly what I needed to find the courage to clean my carburator like a pro! (well, it felt like that anyways). Our old lawn mower (that we cannot tell the brand anymore it is so old) starts like a charm.
This is probably the single best TH-cam video for cleaning out a lawnmower carburetor. Very clear and easy to follow. I have used this video to clean the carburetor on my lawnmower which wouldn't start. This cleaning process has worked like a dream. The lawnmower now starts after one pull and seems eager to run. While I was at it, I replaced the fuel line which was perished and the carburetor fuel bowl which had a broken drain valve. Great stuff. Thanks very much for this video.
WOW, I finally found out how to clean out my carburetor!!! Man oh Man am I happy. This video is priceless. You can tell by the number of hits you've got that everyone has been trying to figure this out. Thank you so very very very much!
Thank you!! Because of this video I was able to get my craftsman 4.5 Hp Eager 1 Lawnmower working in under 2 hours. I was pulling and pulling and nothin'. Left gas in all winter and there was no oil left in the engine. Went to C.T. and picked up some motomaster 4 stroke lawn mower oil, a new spark plug and a new air filter. 20 bucks later and with the help of your tutorial and a 3 yr old can of carb cleaner the mower started on 1 pull! Never did that all last season. You're awesome
Has this same problem and thanks to your video, I fixed it and will now know how to prevent it going forward. Loved the sped up mowing sequence at the end as well!! Thanks very much!!
Thanks for taking the time to make this. Even 3 yrs later the video convinced me to do the work myself, saved $50-60. Awesome. Only improvements to this tutorial seems to be the cleaning of the jet holes with wire and also to show how you set the needle back onto the bowl clip piece. Also seems you can take just the bowl off and do *most of the steps.
Could not start my aerators....watched your video and followed it...they both started first pull....just saved me about $150.00 as that is what they charged me to clean both carbs last year....Thanks !!!!! Steve Langford
Boy, the lawnmower fix it shops must hate these You Tube videos. Big loss of business. Seriously though, do the following: Store fuel no longer than 30'days, and put a five dollar fuel filter on your machine. Done! Nice video, thanks for helping people!
Thank you for this video!! With your help I spent 20 minutes and $2 on a can of carb spray to completely give my mower new life. Excellent instruction. Thanks again.
I watched your video and was able to start my mower with one pull after cleaning out the carb. It's starting better than it has in awhile. Thanks for the help!
@binnsh Thanks for the support of the videos, and as for removing the fuel for winterization, I go through this war every fall with my father who swears by emptying it out of all his equipment. To each his own but I believe it causes the gaskets and o-rings to dry up and deteriorate hence why i always leave just a bit of fuel and some stabilizer in mine over the winter months. I always end up rebuilding a carb or two in the spring for my father lol
oh my god thanks.i had to switch out a carb and then the mower would not get gas.heard you talk about cleaning out the little holes in the bolt ,and tried it.YES IT WORKED .started first pull.awsome.finaly i can get the grass cut now.it's about a foot high.
Just for your future reference this is a Tecumseh engine. Craftsman is the name Sears had written on nearly all their equipment for years. Also, I noticed when you took the carburetor bowl off the carburetor that the bowl was turned 180 degrees from where it should have been. If you notice the bowl has a shallow spot on the bottom and a deeper spot. The shallow spot needs to be directly under the hinge pin which fastens the float to the carburetor body. This leaves the deeper part of the bowl for the float to drop down and let fuel into the bowl. I do not know if your sprayed carburetor cleaner into the fuel inlet in the carburetor body where the needle seat was or not because you sprayed it off camera. Just a quick tip here, you should NEVER spray carburetor cleaner on ANY rubber parts on your carburetor because the chemicals in carburetor cleaner will distort the shape of the rubber parts. It will actually cause the rubber parts to swell and cause you to have problems with your needle and seat functioning correctly. Please believe me when I say I am not trying to be a know-it-all. These are things I learned through trial and error myself and I am only trying to share with you what I have learned. I wish you only best, sir, and "Happy Wrenching!"
Thank you sooo much i have searched all over youtube trying to find a fix for this and i had no clue there was that stupid little tiny valve on the actual bolt that holds the bowl on.... This helped me alot. Thank you
Nice video, thank you. I always add fuel stabilizer to all my fuel for outside engines such as this. I used to have carb problems in my early years due to them gumming up by storing them for long periods. Now I use the fuel stabilizer I never have such problems.
Man... you are awesome. After pulling the cord a dozen times i feel like im gonna kill over... ya make it look so simple but for some reason ANYTHING i attempt to do that requires ANY TOOLS ends up being a frustrated nightmare that makes me throw things n stamp my feet...HOWEVER... every now and then every once in a while... some how some way a miracle happens after someone like you showin me a lil sumn sumn and WAH LAH! WOOOOO HOOOO! I AM SPARTA!!!!! Zippppadeeeeee Dooo Dah Baby! Ty, Love!
Thanks for the positive feedback! I have a friend in Hawaii i hear things are expensive down there since your pretty much a self contained state. Around here (northeast PA) repair shops would charge somewhere in the neighboorhood of $50 plus parts for this job
I've had good luck just pulling the float cover and spraying the innerds in place, assuming you have access. It's often a bit of goo or varnish in the bottom of the bowl or on the main jet from sitting. My snow blower has a nice little button on the bottom of the cover to get the last little bit of gas out before storage to prevent this problem. You put together nice videos.
i must agree on certain briggs motors i had one on a gokart as a child and i ran it for years..... "Hard years" and at that time i wasn't thinking about oil changes or anything but it put up with my crap for the whole time i owned it and i sold it to a neighbor kid a few years back, hes still riding around on it
Oh yea! I was about to go buy a new mower.... but thanks to this video it looks like I'm gonna get another summer out of my murray. Thank you very much!
Gasoline will turn to varnish over the winter when the mower is not in use and gunk up the carburetor so the mower wont't start. You don't want that to happen so just run the gas out of it before storing it for the winter. Or just start it up periodically.
does it smoke? try checking your spark plug, sometimes you can get another season out of one just by spinning it around on a bench grinder with a wire wheel, or even a little wire brush if its sooted up bad.... Just remember to always check your spark plug gap any time your reinstalling a plug. Heck that might even be the problem!
Thanks you for the tip. I will replace the plug, i checked and it was black and a bit oily, i cleaned and sanded and used it. But i was lazy to replace it. Thank you for checking on my post.
Do yourself a favor and pick up one of thos little gapper disc keychains the parts store sells by the register for 89¢ . They should be able to give you the spec for your gap at the parts/hardware store.
Torch tip cleaner works very well for cleaning ports and any small holes. Only 6 bucks and you can use it over and over. I use it when doing small engines and especially on my 4 wheeler.
Hey i cleaned my carb like in the video but my engine still didnt start and after changing the spark plug and fuel line still nothing. then the next day it kicked over and i do believe the carb was the problem and i wanted to thank you for the great video
i noticed too, he put the bowl on wrong. Also IMO take out the little O ring gasket, spray a crap load of carb cleaner in it, blow it out. Use a paper clip to clean out the little brass jet bolt too.
Strange thing is that my Honda 214 push mower does not have a bolt with a hole in it for the bowl (what you referenced as a 1/2). It is original with a regular looking bolt, and I just had the carb rebuilt this past spring (2019). Now the mower wants to stall out.
@Big10or11 If that is the case, most small engine shops, and outdoor equipment or powersport equipment shops stock a large inventory of carb rebuild kits for most popular brands of mower engines. They are pretty cheap and dont let the title scare you it will usually just be a small ziplock bag with 2 or 3 o-rings, a needle, a bowl gasket, and possibly a new jet. the one i bought for this mower was 14 bucks
That is most definitely a Tecumseh. I recognize that motor instantly. You won't see them on Craftsmanship anymore. Tecumseh closed engine factory in late 2008.
@croom9 Thanks for the reply. My 4.5hp push craftsman, doesn't have a choke or throttle adj. like yours on this vid. It is a mulching mower and newer, green color. I may have put the linkages incorrectly(I may have put the spring on the top of that thing on side of engine which I assume is connected to the governor). I see you hooked them before you screwed on the carb. It will rev when I advance the linkage(buttterfly valve?)..
I have a old Craftsman mower that has been very difficult to keep running lately.I replaced the Spark Plug,new air filter,clean oil and gas.It will start up but will not stay running unless you hold the Primer button in.Seems like the gas is not flowing through.I also replaced the gas line.
it was a 3.5 horizontal shaft, but the weird part is that it didn't have a pull start, it had a spring loaded crank up with a lock release, ive never seen another one, and most anyone i mention it to has never heard of the mechanism i speak of
Thank you so much. Believe me, 11 years later, your video is exactly what I needed to find the courage to clean my carburator like a pro! (well, it felt like that anyways). Our old lawn mower (that we cannot tell the brand anymore it is so old) starts like a charm.
This is probably the single best TH-cam video for cleaning out a lawnmower carburetor. Very clear and easy to follow. I have used this video to clean the carburetor on my lawnmower which wouldn't start. This cleaning process has worked like a dream. The lawnmower now starts after one pull and seems eager to run. While I was at it, I replaced the fuel line which was perished and the carburetor fuel bowl which had a broken drain valve. Great stuff. Thanks very much for this video.
WOW, I finally found out how to clean out my carburetor!!! Man oh Man am I happy. This video is priceless. You can tell by the number of hits you've got that everyone has been trying to figure this out. Thank you so very very very much!
Thank you!! Because of this video I was able to get my craftsman 4.5 Hp Eager 1 Lawnmower working in under 2 hours. I was pulling and pulling and nothin'. Left gas in all winter and there was no oil left in the engine. Went to C.T. and picked up some motomaster 4 stroke lawn mower oil, a new spark plug and a new air filter. 20 bucks later and with the help of your tutorial and a 3 yr old can of carb cleaner the mower started on 1 pull! Never did that all last season. You're awesome
Im impressed on the 'geometrical way" you mowed your lawn!
Has this same problem and thanks to your video, I fixed it and will now know how to prevent it going forward. Loved the sped up mowing sequence at the end as well!! Thanks very much!!
Thanks for taking the time to make this. Even 3 yrs later the video convinced me to do the work myself, saved $50-60. Awesome. Only improvements to this tutorial seems to be the cleaning of the jet holes with wire and also to show how you set the needle back onto the bowl clip piece. Also seems you can take just the bowl off and do *most of the steps.
Could not start my aerators....watched your video and followed it...they both started first pull....just saved me about $150.00 as that is what they charged me to clean both carbs last year....Thanks !!!!! Steve Langford
Glad I could help!
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Boy, the lawnmower fix it shops must hate these You Tube videos. Big loss of business.
Seriously though, do the following:
Store fuel no longer than 30'days, and put a five dollar fuel filter on your machine. Done!
Nice video, thanks for helping people!
Al Gorel pretty sure that makes up majority of the trolls and not pickers leaving comments here lol
You clearly know shit about engines lol
Preparing to resurrect my poorly maintained mower and trimmer. This instructional video has been very instructive. Thank you very much!
Thank you for this video!! With your help I spent 20 minutes and $2 on a can of carb spray to completely give my mower new life. Excellent instruction. Thanks again.
I watched your video and was able to start my mower with one pull after cleaning out the carb. It's starting better than it has in awhile. Thanks for the help!
This video was very well done. I thought I was going to need to buy a rebuild kit, but I followed the example given in the video, and it worked.
Thanks. This helped me restarting my lawn mower after sitting in the shed for 2 years.
Thanks for sharing this! The steps were easy to follow and best of all our mower is now running great.
@binnsh Thanks for the support of the videos, and as for removing the fuel for winterization, I go through this war every fall with my father who swears by emptying it out of all his equipment. To each his own but I believe it causes the gaskets and o-rings to dry up and deteriorate hence why i always leave just a bit of fuel and some stabilizer in mine over the winter months. I always end up rebuilding a carb or two in the spring for my father lol
oh my god thanks.i had to switch out a carb and then the mower would not get gas.heard you talk about cleaning out the little holes in the bolt ,and tried it.YES IT WORKED .started first pull.awsome.finaly i can get the grass cut now.it's about a foot high.
Thanks for this tutorial. Got mine working just fine after watching!
Great video helped me out alot!! You are correct the hardest part was getting the spring and arm back connected
my lawn mower sat out in the rain for 2 weeks did everything you did but drained the tank and put a new plug in and It ran brand new thanks bub
This helped me fix my mower. I have one of the cottage 16 kids do the mowing. They will appropriate using the mower now.
thanks for the video , i think that's exactly what my mower needs done to it, have been having trouble getting it started
Glad i could help out! Thanks for the support
Just for your future reference this is a Tecumseh engine. Craftsman is the name Sears had written on nearly all their equipment for years. Also, I noticed when you took the carburetor bowl off the carburetor that the bowl was turned 180 degrees from where it should have been. If you notice the bowl has a shallow spot on the bottom and a deeper spot. The shallow spot needs to be directly under the hinge pin which fastens the float to the carburetor body. This leaves the deeper part of the bowl for the float to drop down and let fuel into the bowl. I do not know if your sprayed carburetor cleaner into the fuel inlet in the carburetor body where the needle seat was or not because you sprayed it off camera. Just a quick tip here, you should NEVER spray carburetor cleaner on ANY rubber parts on your carburetor because the chemicals in carburetor cleaner will distort the shape of the rubber parts. It will actually cause the rubber parts to swell and cause you to have problems with your needle and seat functioning correctly. Please believe me when I say I am not trying to be a know-it-all. These are things I learned through trial and error myself and I am only trying to share with you what I have learned. I wish you only best, sir, and "Happy Wrenching!"
Informative video, I always have this problem with my mower after every winter. Thank you.
Thank you sooo much i have searched all over youtube trying to find a fix for this and i had no clue there was that stupid little tiny valve on the actual bolt that holds the bowl on.... This helped me alot. Thank you
Nice video, thank you. I always add fuel stabilizer to all my fuel for outside engines such as this. I used to have carb problems in my early years due to them gumming up by storing them for long periods. Now I use the fuel stabilizer I never have such problems.
Man... you are awesome. After pulling the cord a dozen times i feel like im gonna kill over... ya make it look so simple but for some reason ANYTHING i attempt to do that requires ANY TOOLS ends up being a frustrated nightmare that makes me throw things n stamp my feet...HOWEVER... every now and then every once in a while... some how some way a miracle happens after someone like you showin me a lil sumn sumn and WAH LAH! WOOOOO HOOOO! I AM SPARTA!!!!! Zippppadeeeeee Dooo Dah Baby! Ty, Love!
Awesome video, lots of details for a 1ST timer. thank you for saving me $100 (hawaii) to repair this issue.
Thanks for the positive feedback! I have a friend in Hawaii i hear things are expensive down there since your pretty much a self contained state. Around here (northeast PA) repair shops would charge somewhere in the neighboorhood of $50 plus parts for this job
thanks buddy for taking the time to make this video,
Thanks for the thorough explanation. I will get to work on my lawnmower and get it running. Thanks
Good video. Very instructional and easy to follow.
Thank you, I was able to fix my pressure washer watching this video.
Got my salt spreader running a hundred percent now thanks for the video
Your welcome! Dont forget to subscribe so you can stay tuned for upcoming DIY's on both Autos' and small engines.
Nice video and a good explanation on how to do this. Tks man.
Great video, easy to follow and very thorough! You really whipped through that yard! :-)
Awesome job. Great video!
Exactly what I needed to see..thanks.
I've had good luck just pulling the float cover and spraying the innerds in place, assuming you have access. It's often a bit of goo or varnish in the bottom of the bowl or on the main jet from sitting. My snow blower has a nice little button on the bottom of the cover to get the last little bit of gas out before storage to prevent this problem. You put together nice videos.
Dude, you saved me $200.00 for a new lawn mower...props brother!!!!
Excellent video. Thanks. Good on ya mate.
Awesome video man! I'm have to check out your channel to see if I can't learn something else.
Thanks, very helpful! Especially like the ending!
That was fun to watch. Thanks
Really good video! You did the world a service! thanks. :)
great video!
I dont know why i watched the ending, but i did...the whole thing. Thanks for the video.
thank you.. going to attempt it this weekend and report back!
i must agree on certain briggs motors i had one on a gokart as a child and i ran it for years..... "Hard years" and at that time i wasn't thinking about oil changes or anything but it put up with my crap for the whole time i owned it and i sold it to a neighbor kid a few years back, hes still riding around on it
wonderful informative video!! thank you!!
Good video. I like the intro! I'd recommend adding a time-point for people to skip the disassembly to get to the actual cleaning.
Thanks for the suggestion ill look into that. Ive honestly been away from TH-cam for a bit and the new features are great
thank you for your video.
I will attempt to take mine down and clean it.
awesome....loved the video....thank you for posting it!
Enjoyed your video
Great video. Thanks !
Very helpful. Thank you
Oh yea! I was about to go buy a new mower.... but thanks to this video it looks like I'm gonna get another summer out of my murray. Thank you very much!
Gasoline will turn to varnish over the winter when the mower is not in use and gunk up the carburetor so the mower wont't start. You don't want that to happen so just run the gas out of it before storing it for the winter. Or just start it up periodically.
Or put something like ethanol shield in your gas :)
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very well explained video. My lawn mover starts but back fires and stops. I will deal with it tomorrow, thanks for explaining how to DIY.
How did your endeavor pan out for you? Were you able to get the lawn mowed in time for lawn chair n brewskie time!?!?!?
I got it going for now...it back fires every now and then.
does it smoke? try checking your spark plug, sometimes you can get another season out of one just by spinning it around on a bench grinder with a wire wheel, or even a little wire brush if its sooted up bad....
Just remember to always check your spark plug gap any time your reinstalling a plug. Heck that might even be the problem!
Thanks you for the tip. I will replace the plug, i checked and it was black and a bit oily, i cleaned and sanded and used it. But i was lazy to replace it. Thank you for checking on my post.
Do yourself a favor and pick up one of thos little gapper disc keychains the parts store sells by the register for 89¢ . They should be able to give you the spec for your gap at the parts/hardware store.
Well done! I'll be trying THAT tomorrow.. I've got 3 of them doin' the same thing! Wish me luck!
Thanks for the info.
Very good video. Thanks
Torch tip cleaner works very well for cleaning ports and any small holes. Only 6 bucks and you can use it over and over. I use it when doing small engines and especially on my 4 wheeler.
very helpful, thanks
great video...was wondering if you could share a more detailed video about how to reinstall the pin and the hanger piece for the float. thanks...
thanks for the video i will be my first carb cleaning
very helpful bro on the carb tune up but don't think I'll be using your grass cut techniques
Grat video thanks. The cleaning really seems to have turbocharged your mower!
Hey i cleaned my carb like in the video but my engine still didnt start and after changing the spark plug and fuel line still nothing. then the next day it kicked over and i do believe the carb was the problem and i wanted to thank you for the great video
Thank you.Very helpful.
Good video buddy thanks
great video, thanx a lot
Much man-love to you bro, thanks
Thank you alot man, you explained everything great, I learned alot and saved about $80 aha
Thanks for sharing. BTW, great drama acting in the beginning of the video! LOL
Good video mate..an idea is to take a photo of the linkages...
i noticed too, he put the bowl on wrong. Also IMO take out the little O ring gasket, spray a crap load of carb cleaner in it, blow it out. Use a paper clip to clean out the little brass jet bolt too.
Your very welcome!
Strange thing is that my Honda 214 push mower does not have a bolt with a hole in it for the bowl (what you referenced as a 1/2). It is original with a regular looking bolt, and I just had the carb rebuilt this past spring (2019). Now the mower wants to stall out.
great vid. thanks
@Big10or11 If that is the case, most small engine shops, and outdoor equipment or powersport equipment shops stock a large inventory of carb rebuild kits for most popular brands of mower engines. They are pretty cheap and dont let the title scare you it will usually just be a small ziplock bag with 2 or 3 o-rings, a needle, a bowl gasket, and possibly a new jet. the one i bought for this mower was 14 bucks
Thanx ! great help .
Thanks for the video.
@croom9 The brand of that engine is a Tecumseh. The brand went out of business in 2007 and they made small engines for about 50 years
Helpfully basic video.... Thanks
That is most definitely a Tecumseh. I recognize that motor instantly. You won't see them on Craftsmanship anymore. Tecumseh closed engine factory in late 2008.
It's a Tecumseh engine
@croom9 Thanks for the reply. My 4.5hp push craftsman, doesn't have a choke or throttle adj. like yours on this vid. It is a mulching mower and newer, green color. I may have put the linkages incorrectly(I may have put the spring on the top of that thing on side of engine which I assume is connected to the governor). I see you hooked them before you screwed on the carb. It will rev when I advance the linkage(buttterfly valve?)..
Awesome vid
LOL, I love the throwing the hat part. I did the same damn thing with my pressure washer.
I have a old Craftsman mower that has been very difficult to keep running lately.I replaced the Spark Plug,new air filter,clean oil and gas.It will start up but will not stay running unless you hold the Primer button in.Seems like the gas is not flowing through.I also replaced the gas line.
Thank's mate 4 the nice video.
I wanna see the part of the filter Because trow the gasoline in side have a hole ? Thank you for the HELP,,,,
@fernandezjoey1212 No problem glad you could use the video
The shallow part of the float bowl lines up to the hinge side of the float.
it was a 3.5 horizontal shaft, but the weird part is that it didn't have a pull start, it had a spring loaded crank up with a lock release, ive never seen another one, and most anyone i mention it to has never heard of the mechanism i speak of
Thanks for making this video, I can fix my mums mower now.
@irish89055 are you sure the choke isnt on...... or the linkage for the choke lever is hooked up correctly?
Thanks man.