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Steve Walker
 
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Default Petrol Mower wont prime and start

The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
JD wrote:
Help...

I have a Champion mower with a Briggs & Stratton 35 Classic
motor(approx 4 year old) that's never given me any real
problems. I have serviced it myself and all worked fine until
today. The engine has a red prime bulb which when U push squirts
petrol into the carb (I think) when I tried to prime it today
there's nothing happening, no feel of liquid moving etc. just an
air noise. I Have taken off the air filter and sure enough no
squirt of petrol can be seen. Checked the obvious and the tank
is full
any ideas where I go next ?

Thanks in hope with a very long lawn and only a one day dry spell
forecast.


With filter off,pour a little bit of petrol into the carb
cylinder and try starting it like that to see if its air in the
feed pipe?


A squirt of Bradex EasyStart is my answer every Spring.
Wonderful stuff, I wonder if they still sell it?