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Aaron Cake
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Canada
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Posted - Aug 22 2003 :  4:54:50 PM  Show Profile  Visit Aaron Cake's Homepage  Send Aaron Cake an ICQ Message  Send Aaron Cake a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
If it is a standard B&S engine with a vacu-jet carb, then it is clogged. There is also a gasket between the carb and the fuel tank that contains the pumping diaphram and related parts. That needs to be replaced as it has probably hardened.

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Alien
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Canada
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Posted - Aug 22 2003 :  10:14:37 PM  Show Profile  Click to see Alien's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
It is a standard B&S 3hp engine... It now works! We braught a new muffler and we cleaned the carb. The gasket between the carb and gas tank was completly intact except for a bit of rust on a spring. We didn't do much actually, we remember that the fuel was over a year old and that we forgot to change it, so we did and then i started it. It worked it took its own gas. But it was out of tuning. So i tried to make it as good ad i could. Now it works pretty well, accel, idle.... And we didn't pay a cent to get this engine :) (Neighbor was throwing it out)... Except for the new muffler... Now all it needs is maybe a new blade since its rusted and out of balance and a paint job...

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Andrew
13/m/Canada

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