Lawn mower problem...

Tecumseh.

Try Jack's Small Engines:

Try the Sears website, too, & see if you can get the part(s) locally:

Rob

Was this mower sitting in the hot sun by chance?

I filled my tank recently, sitting in the HOT 90F sun for awhile I think it leaked onto the deck of my mower. Maybe a tight cap and expanding gas forced it out onto the mower deck via the carb.

I don't know for certain, but the deck looks the color of bee's wax, just under the carb. The mower still runs.

-- Oren

..through the use of electrical or duct tape, achieve the configuration in the photo..

SNIPS

Hmmm. Good idea. Real cloudy here yesterday, though, all day. Temps never broke 60. So I do't think thats it.

SNIPS

Yeah, I found, after my initial post, that it was Tecumseh with a little digging.

Thanks for the parts site cite.

I found another one:

Sears was surprisingly cheaper for a carb ($ 59.99) than the site I found ($ 62 and change).

Again, thanks.

Sounds like classic case of carb-flooding- could be dirt in needle-valve, or corroded (thus sinking) float, mostlikely.

Carb-kit time.

JN

Or dirt in the float valve.

Bob

Float valve and needle-valve. Did I miss something or are they one in the same?

-- Oren

..through the use of electrical or duct tape, achieve the configuration in the photo..

HUGE SNIPS

I read and hear about "carb kits".

At the risk of showing how ignorant I can sometimes be, what's a "carb kit" and where do you get one?

All I see on web sites for this Tecumseh are lots and lots of real small parts being sold separately, or a complete, unbolt the old one rebolt the new one, replacement carb.

Very unlikely to need the entire carb. Much more likely just the float.

You're one of the few people on this site who can properly use site and cite in a sentence when you cite someone.

That comes of my disolute youth, been lawyering and then judging for too long until I retired a couple years ago.

Which is why I love tinkering with things mechanical, electrical, and constructionish.

Very relaxing and as far removed from what I do / did as a job to be fun.

And mechanical stuff actually sometimes does what you "tell" it to do, unlike 99% of criminal defendants and 90% of civil litigants.

Being as how Usenet is not a site, apparently you're not. :)

You really can't as dumb as you write, can you?

Of course he can! Never say never - mentioned here before.

-- Oren

..through the use of electrical or duct tape, achieve the configuration in the photo..

Easy for you to.

There doesn't appear to be one from Sears. Any mower shop should be able to get an after-market kit.

--Andy Asberry--

------Texas-----

I guess you can be as dumb as you write. You've just proven it yet again.