10-minute Lawn Mower Fuel Flow Fix! 

Here is a a tip that will resolve 90% of the common small engine users' problems... Install a stop valve in the fuel line and run your engine after each use until it just dies, which sucks all of the fuel out of the carburetor... this keeps the carburetor relatively clean which is the problem with 90% of common users. Why every small engine device doesn't include this feature, I don't know... but it's a life saver!!

Just 'a guy with some hand tools' seems to be way better than some pro. Thanks bro!..

Every comment positive. My mower started acting up bc of some bad fuel, ran for a while w some purging. Tried to start afterwards and nothing. Watched this video and 1st pull nothing...2nd pull started right up. Excellent video. Saved my butt and my wallet!

My lawn mower was completely dead, then I followed your instructions and now it works like a charm!! Thank you so much!!!!!!

Wow man I can't believe this actually worked, thank you so much I tried just about everything. You're a life saver!

IT WORKED, PASSING THIN WIRE THROUGH THE HOLE ABOVE THE FLOAT OF THE CARB. Started right up. Took me 20 min to screw that brass nut back into bottom of carb, though, as I worried I'd strip the thin threads. Oiling the old threads helped and finally it went in. My 10 year + mower might have gone to the garbage dump but is now back in service.

Me and my friend are bringing a lawn mower back to life that has been sitting for 8 years+ and this helps heaps. Thanks!

Boom 🎉 that saved me a visit to the man! Thank you!

Worked like a charm! Thanks brother. Crap… now I have to cut the grass so thank you very little! (Good Stuff!!)

Fantastic tip! Cleaning with the wire tie fixed things for me. Thanks!

Awesome video! I had pulled everything apart, cleaned the carburetor, changed spark plugs, changed the oil/fuel, checked the fuel lines....everything but your key point to run a wire-tie wire through the needle valve. I was about to take it to a repair shop but saw your video, gave the needle valve step a try and it started like a champ on the 2nd pull! THANK YOU!!

Thanks for this tip. It helped me get the lawnmawer running, again.

This is the first comment I’ve ever made but I had to say god bless you this worked on my Lawnmower I can’t believe it it will cost over $100 to take it somewhere thank you

Now I can split wood! Great tip. I added a shot of canned air using a flexible tube following the wire. Thanks for posting.

Nice video I will keep this in mind for the future. I did have a carberator problem but it was resolved.

Hey man. Thank you I did exactly what you showed. And my mower is WORKING THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU SO BLEHMIN MUCH.❤

Different model, but it worked. I'd already cleaned the carb twice, but it still didn't work until I did the wire trick after pulling the carb a third time. Thanks

Bro you’re the GOAT…was literally looking at new lawnmowers and as a last gasp checked this video out. Did exactly what you said (lawnmower was close enough to yours) and now it’s purring like a kitten. Even if it doesn’t last, can get me through the season! Thank you!

I know this vid is 2 years old, but it gets full marks from me! Solved my issue in a flash. Brick on handle, drop off bowl, wire in jet, put back bowl, off we go ,great! Lots of other vids want me to strip down carb and replace jet! Yes I know I’ll have to do that eventually, but for now..mowers ho!

Second year in a row I've used your video to start my mower. Thanks again!!

Brilliant! The quickest and easiest method. Worked like a charm. Thank you very much!

Your tip really helped to get the mower running again! Thanks a lot Brother! 🇺🇸👍

You just saved me a ton...tried the new plug, airfilter, drain the tank, new screen, carb cleaner and no luck. Just did this and it fired up second pull....and started first pull every time. Thank You so much man, almost took it to a shop.

Good video very clear and precise this is actually the first actually simple fix solution ive ever had work first try TYSM

This is the video I needed to see. Thank you. I didn't know where the float bowl was located on my mower (I am not a mechanic, lol) and I have the same mower. It has been frustrating trying to figure this out. Especially since I did everything else, this was the last thing to clean out. You have no idea how helpful this was for me. Thanks again.

Simple and valuable information. Wish I'd watched this video an hour earlier. Worked! Very first pull! Thank you.

Thank you Sir!!!!! Today I have saved $250 on a new mower. EDIT: tip: if it's rubber, you can clamp that fuel hose closed with a vice grips and then you don't have to tilt your mower back.

worked a treat , thanks!

Great tip, I live in the mountains and I have every type of motorized type of equipment and your instructional video will help me!!!

Just got my lawnmower working with this fix. Thanks from England. Matt

first time ive seen something on RU-vid that works, thank you

Major thanks! She’s running like a champ after this!

Tryed other things before going to the carb jet on My 2005 Murray lawnmower with 4HP B & S. Would stop running after 2 minutes. Watched your vid. Took a wire tie off a loaf of bread ( wife did not like this) and peeled the plastic off. Great tool to cleanout the jet. And yes it worked. Was fighting this problem for quite awhile. Engine now stays running. Many thanks to You for this Vid.

Life Saver! Cleaned out my float and it started up on the first pull. I used a really small hex wrench instead of the little wire.

Omg thank you!!! I had no idea what to do and tried this tip and it fired right up with one pull!

Anybody else waiting for the cinder block to move ?

THANK YOU!!! Your idea of a twist tie wire is brilliant! I couldn't think of what to use.

Thank you soooo much. from your instructions I was able to unclog and fix my mower.

Thank you so much, 20 min ago I was in tears

Hi, thanks for this, took just 5 minutes to do the fix and get my old HR17 Honda mower running again. Thanks for sharing! 😎

Thanks Brother. It worked for me, as well, for my Lawnboy 6.5 for the same trouble. Thanks again and be blessed .

Sir. You just saved my day and probably 50 to a hundred bucks! THANK you! P.S. I couldn't get the bowl off BUT I was able to get an old guitar string up thru the hole. Seems to have done the trick!

Thank you so much! Worked like a charm. My little pinhole was on the front but I figured it out.

Gonna try this tip tomorrow on our toro recycler. Thank u for sharing.

Ty for sharing. Steve's small engine saloon teaches this same principle! But, heachad a customer that kept coming back with thie very same issue about 3 or 4 times, and he came up with an additional step to fix it for good hopefully especially if using the correct gas in your lawn mower and treatment to. I forget what the tools are called that he uses, but if you check out his play list you can find it and that will keep you from having to keep taking it apart so much! 😊

Should have left the volume up at the end, my only complaint lol Thanks for the video, I’m going to try this later!

I'm going to try this on my mower.

This video was spot on! Worked for me perfectly.

Briggs carbs on old mowers are so easy to fix once you watch a good carb clean video done by a good mower mechanic..theres actually several pin sized holes in these type of carbs that need to be clear for carb to work properly. Best to fix gas cap to stop your issue with dirt entering the tank and clean dirt from tank...you can also add a fuel filter...

Thank u advice worked now my lawn mower is running perfect

Thank You Brother I’m Going To Give It A Try👌

Thanks for the video.... Had to replace an air filter and cleaned the bowl (as you described) and the mower started right up and ran...

Just followed your tips and it worked. Thank you 🙏 saved probably $150 from our local guy

Thanks man, that worked liked a charm. big thumbs up!!

Thank you very very much. That was a big help. The lawnmower running great. Thing to you.

Thanks, this was just the fix I needed.

Thank you so much. I have a Honda, but the design is basically the same. Had the bowl cleaned already, but no. The wire did the trick!

It worked. The needle thing in the carburetor

Thank you thank you thank you worked fantastic I thought I was going to have to buy a new mower

Thank you trying this tomorrow morning!!😊

You can also use the small guitar wire.

worked like a charm.......appreciate you cowboy

I bought this mower for 20 dollars just have something to mess around with. Owner said it wouldn't start. Originally I thought it would be the plastic carburetor with the white plastic jet. I really don't want to take this carburetor off with all of these springs. I already sprayed everywhere I could but I think I'm going to try your clean the middle jet trick. I emptied the gas and sprayed around in the tank. I'm trying to watch some videos because I have a spacer or something that came off and I can't find where it goes. Thanks for the tip. I ordered a recoil so I can't put it all the way back together anyway. This recoil won't pull the handle all the way to the unit. I have to see how to remove those rivets and how to bolt the new one down. Guess that's what I get for taking on a mystery project. 🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️😁 Thanks for the video

Just finished watching the video and because of ALL the positive comments of success i am going to do this right now lol

I have the same lawnmower. What size shut off valve do I get ? I don’t know what size fuel line that I have. Thank you for the video. My lawnmower started up yeah. No more taking it to the repair shop every season. Thank you

That shit worked AMAZINGLY!!! 1ST PULL it started and ran great!

Thanks for the tip, buddy.

Interesting. When I last bought a mower a friend suggested Toro and only use non ethanol gas. That has worked for me 7 years now. I run the mower till it runs out of gas for the end of season. I try to only buy enough gas for a month or less of mowing. I'm not sure if I have the same style jet as yours but will remember this if needed. Thanks.

It works!, thank you so much for your advice.

Cleaning or replacing your air filter once in a while would help too!

Thanks for the tip to fix the mower! Also what is the song you used in the beginning? It’s awesome!

I use needle files on all the jet holes inside works a treat if this doesn’t fix it

Sorry for probably a dumb question, but I saw where you poured the carb cleaner. How much should I put in? And where did you put the SeaFoam? Thank youNb

Great video thanks

Awesome it worked thanks

You shut your amazing mouth! IT WORKED! 😊❤😂🎉 THANK YOU.

Thank you! It worked!

Just saved me thanks. I’m gonna buy all the cheap small engine things on marketplace

Thanks !

Thanks for sharing.

What about cleaning the fuel line out? Wouldn't that help too?

Beautiful

Great video

put a small inline fuel filter between tank and cab, run high octane fuel with stabilizer, that will help a lot

Great tips!!!

Awesome video

Have you considered putting in a fuel line filter

thanks

What was the carburetor cleaner and sea foam for?

God job thanks

Well here’s another tip - the primer plunger - to the side of that there is a hole with a bearing in it ( tiny), mine has fallen out took me ages to figure out why it kept running and stoping - it prevented the “vacuum” needed to pull the fuel - that needs to be plugged to allow the plunger to pull the petrol from the tank and also to keep it running ….. who knew 😂

Did all of this, cleaned the line that runs to the carb from the tank too... still nothing. Runs when I spray starter fluid in it... new spark plug too. what else could be blocking fuel?

I cleaned out everything, fuel line, carburetor, the jets the vacuum lines, got a new spark plug and cleaned the terminals, and it still doesn’t start, I spared some brake clean and it starts then dies, what is the problem? 😢

Thank you so very much.

What does the Sea Foam do?

Do fuel tank hole has to be open our close .

Does the tie keep it open?

And thanks to the gunked fuel in the tank and hose, you’ll have to repeat in ten minutes. Flush the old fuel (may use it in your fuel-injected car with 2-3 filters in the fuel system), clean the fuel line, get some fresh premium fuel. Otherwise it seems to be ok.

Just put some suran wrap on the threads of your gas tank.

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