Old Sears Mower

[MJBaldwin]

All,

I bought this mower for 20 bucks for my hunting shack to get the yard mowed. While I was there and first time with this little rider I experienced some difficulties. The problem was it just didn’t seem to want to stay running I know i was mowing tall grass but even when I was going down the road it seemed to just want to die I had to hold the throttle almost all the way to the choke. And it constantly would die and had to start it again. What could this be? I tried adding seafoam but didn’t see any result from that? Any ideas I should have brought it back to tinker with but I didn’t so when I do go up I will be limited to resources and would like to get it running so it makes the trip quicker

Thanks all in advance! ( will attach pics so you get an idea of what im talking about)

[Surface Tension]

Start at the gas tank and work your way to the carb. Check for rotted gas lines and bad connection.

When you get to the fuel pump check for pressure on the outlet side. Be sure the impulse line to the fuel pump is good.

If that all checks out then you'll be at the carb. Before you pull it off remove the bowl or at least drain it. You should be able to do this without taking the carb off. Draining bowl could flush out debris stuck in the inlet valve(needle and seat) by allowing the float to drop at it lowest point which also opens the valve to it fullest. Pull the spark plug, put a container under the carb and turn the engine over. What your doing to pumping gas though the inlet valve and hoping to flush it more. Put it back together and run it. Could be that its good to go or could be all that didn't do anything. Time to remove the carb and clean it. Pay attention to the throttle and governor linkage or better yet take pictures so you get it back together correctly.

[efgh]

Your main jet is probley almost pluged, you can unscrew it from the base without removing the carb, just make sure the pickup hole in the bottom of the jet is open.