Where is the carburetor on a push mower
Lawn Mower Repair : How to Clean the Carburetor on a Lawn Mower
hi I'm Marc Bouwer at Bauer small injury
repair and I'm going to show you how to
clean a lawnmower carburetor I'm going
to remove the fuel tank on this model
you simply slide it up there's little
tabs on the engine that hold the tank in
place you want to take off the clamp
it's this particular clamp typically
will break which this one did so you
want to just take pair of pliers slide
take it off you can take a pair of
needle nose pliers and slide it behind
the fuel line and that will enable you
to pry it up you don't if you try to
take it off by by squeezing the fuel
line you're just going to pinch it onto
the fitting here and you could damage
that fitting just simply take the
needlenose and pop that off you want to
take the gas that's in the tank and
dispose of it properly
chances either dirt came from the tank
so you don't want to reuse that fuel
that's in the tank the next thing you
want to do is you can get some
carburetor cleaner and just put a little
bit on a rag then you want to clean off
this bowl so you don't when you take the
bowl off you don't let dirt fall inside
the carburetor so you want to lay it a
rag down so you don't get gas everywhere
simply unscrew that jet that that's not
is also a main jet and this gas this gas
smells bad and has a yellowish color
it's it's it's stale so you just loosen
it up the ranch once you get it loose
enough with the wrench and you can grab
the grab it in unscrew it sometimes
takes two fingers
alright the most common failure is this
mitt this is the main jet main jet /
bull nut and what happens is it just
gets a little piece of debris in there
in the jet you can see that little green
piece of debris and then there's also a
piece of the old get the gasket that
little flake right there and you want to
simply
clean that gasket off of there get all
the old gasket off just like that so you
want to make sure that's clean and the
way you can do that is just simply get a
piece of small wire and see you and you
poke it in and out of that hole make
sure that it's clean it's really it's
imperative that that hole is clean so
you'll run the wire through there you
can also run the wire through this hole
in the middle you want to go down the
middle
just spray a little bit out on and on
the Jacke can just do that and if you
don't have carb cleaner you can just
make it really clean with just using a
brush the carburetor cleaners just helps
get a little bit more a little bit more
of it off there and you want to make
sure you have adequate ventilation I
have a fan going I have the window open
the the overhead garage doors open
this stuff is hazardous you don't want
to breathe that in once you're sure you
have that main jet clean and just set
that aside now we're going to take the
bowl off the carburetor the bowl is only
held on by that nut so we're going to
just take the bowl off sometimes they
get stuck on there on this one we're
going to replace the bowl we're not even
going to try to clean that
what I'm going to do now is make sure
that the float is moving freely and when
you bring it up it will have a distinct
click and that clicking sound tells me
that the needle is sealing on its seat
and that's a good thing that's what you
want so we're going to take the gasket
off and you just get a little
screwdriver in this case I'm using a
pick and this gasket is really bad so
I'm going to take this off here
I have compressed air so I'm going to
I'm going to blow it blow that off okay
this is a new bull Oh ring we're going
to put this on on the bull on the
carburetor you just get the back on
first and then work you'll figure out to
the front then just make sure that it's
all the way on so you put it on the back
first and then just simply slide your
fingers around and it will go up into
where it's supposed to be the bull has a
deep end to it
one end shallow one ends deep you want
to place that shallow end right where
the hinge pin is see just simply put the
bowl on there we'll pull that away and
now we're going to just get that back in
place now we're going to tighten our nut
and that's how you clean a carburetor on
a lawnmower
