Re: Tillotson Carb Question

[billw]

Two ideas: First, make sure the choke linkage allows the choke to close all the way. Second, try new gas. If your gas is any more than a month or two old, it could have lost its poop. That drove me mental once, on my neighbor’s lawn mower. Gas looked good, smelled good….but it was dead. Proved it by spilling a small amount on a cement slab and lighting it off with a torch; then doing the same with new gas. The difference in flame was unreal. Before you say that it runs good when used on other engines, keep in mind that 80 psi compression, while okay on a small engine, really is getting down towards the border of not firing.

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