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Default Engine in John Deere Snow Thrower 522 Cannot Run without Choke

On Dec 19, 11:42*am, Jay Chan wrote:
On Dec 17, 2:39*pm, E Z Peaces wrote:





Jay Chan wrote:


There is an "Idle Mixing Needle" and the channel for it. *And I have
cleaned it and used compressed air to blow the channel. *Honestly, I
don't know if this matters or not because the problem that I have is
with running the engine in high speed; therefore, the idle mixing
needle should be irrelevant.


There's an idle mixing needle! *Great! *That should help troubleshooting.


When carburetor people talk about idle and high speed, they're really
talking about throttle opening. *You say the throttle is pretty well
closed, so the idle mixing needle should be the most important adjustment.