Installing a Carburetor in a Lawn Mower

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Part of the video series: How to Fix a Lawnmower

Summary: Installing the carburetor of a lawn mower is an important part of maintenance, get expert tips and advice on lawn mower repair & maintenance in this free video.

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By Peter Gutwein
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Peter started learning lawn mower maintenance in his high school shop class. Since then, he has worked for several different lawn mower shops over the last 8 years. He is certified in...read more

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on 8/2/2008 Lawn Mower Repair and Maintenance Tips: My name is Don. My five year old lawn mower died and I was about ready to take it to the dump, as I have done in the past, and go buy a new one. But this time I decided to check the net to see if I could information about repairing a lawn mower myself. I found Peter's videos and my first reaction was, "That looks exactly like my lawn mower." I watched the whole series of videos and followed his instructions for replacing the air filter and cleaning the carburetor. And sure enough everything was just as he described. The one thing he didn't mention was what to do if the carburator gasket needs replacing, and mine did. I called the manufacture and they wanted part numbers, etc. which I didn't have because I lost the owner's manual long ago. I called a couple of local mower repair shops and was told to "bring it in and we'll fix it." But luckily I did find a local repair facility for "riding mowers" and they knew exactly what I needed. I went there got the gasket, a new air filter, and spark plug and reassembled the mower following Peter's instructions. I put in some new gas, gave it a pull and VOILA! It cranked immediately and purred like a kitten. Following the video instructions made the job very easy - and I saved myself a bunch of money. I highly recommend the videos for lawn mower repair, even for the "mechanically challenged" like myself.

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"Hi, my name is Peter Gutwein and we’ve been looking at doing some minor repairs to mowers and now that we’ve taken the carburetor off and we’ve cleaned it we’re going to go ahead and reinstall the carburetor right back on the mower here. The first thing you want to do is make sure you have this little rubber gasket. It fits over the tube if the carburetor melts on here, I know it’s hard to see but you just slip the rubber gasket right over the top there and then you can go ahead and get your carburetor out there pretty close and then you want to reinstall the linkage in the hole on the butterfly valve here, kind of just turn it up there and then you can kind of let it hang. You can get your bulbs here, put it to the carburetor and I just started by hand. The next step is going ahead and putting your fuel prime back on and then pushing the clamp back on there and then this one has a primer line, you can go ahead and just push the primer line right there and then you can just install, after you’ve done those two things you can install the air filter back in place. Kind of just want to brush it off there it’s kind of dirty and this one has a breather hose on it, you want to make sure you get that breather hose back on the tube right there as you kind of line it up. Then you can put the three bolts back on here. The next step after that, after you get that backing plate on would be to go ahead and get your air filter back on and just line up with the three tabs there and put it back on there and use your 5/16 nut driver. Just go ahead and get it tight. That will be installing a carburetor. "

eHow Article: Installing a Carburetor in a Lawn Mower