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Default B&S Engine starts but won't run

"Tim Wescott" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:54:03 -0700, Ivan Vegvary wrote:

THANK YOU everybody.
Took off carb one more time thinking that the bowl fastener
probably
functions also as a gas inlet. (I've seen that before )
Wrong! But I found a tiny,tiny jet perpendicular to the gas flow
that
was plugged. A sewing needle and a hammer unclogged it, and the
machine
purrs rather nicely Thank you for pointing me to 'supply' problem.
Ivan Vegvary


It's good to see the group getting on topic every once in a while.

There's an amazing amount of internal combustion engine diagnosis
that
you can do if you just remember that fire needs fuel, air, and heat
to
burn, and that an internal combustion engine without fire is just an
air
pump.

Air needs to get in, fuel needs to get in, the air & fuel need to be
heated up to ignition temperature, it has to be able to work on the
piston, and then it has to be expelled before the cycle repeats. If
one
of those is missing, it ain't gonna work.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

I'm looking for work -- see my website!


I can often figure out the problem by holding my hand in the exhaust
stream for a moment and then sniffing it. To calibrate your nose, try
that for a rich mixture with the choke out, a normal mixture when
warmed up and a lean one when running the carb dry.

--jsw