How To Rebuild Tecumseh Snow Blower Carburetors with Taryl 

8 year old video still relevant and worth watching. Thanks Taryl!

Taryl I love your show

Just got my circa 1972 7 hp Jacobson Imperial 26 snowblower running thanks to this video.

Great video… best snowblower carbatrater video on YT Thanks👍👍👍👍

Canada Ruuss here, im an ol pro.. so i thought. Pulling the fuel line through with the cut off bolt and primer line was a great lesson. And the water faucet thought process is one ill pass on to my kids. Thank you Taryl!

Thanks, Taryl! My 1982 Ariens Sno Tho (with the 7 HP Tecumish) always started and ran okay, but would occasionally puke gas from the carbatrator. You gave me the confidence to tear into it and find that the carb float was leaking and had gas in it. With a carb kit and a new float, she starts on the first pull and no more leaks! (I even put a new mufkin on while I was working on it.)

Guess who just successfully rehabbed the carburetor on the 5 HP Tecumseh engine on his 1993 TroyBilt snowblower? Me, that's who! This is my second 'win' thanks to Taryl's how-to videos. These are invaluable resources to folks like me who know just enough about stuff like this to be dangerous -- and who thus need a little reliable advice! Thank you SO MUCH for this video.

Thanks Taryl. I've watched many of your videos. They are not only informative but also entertaining. Some people making comments don't seem to have a sense of humor. Don't listen to them. You make repairs fun. With your help I have gotten my lawn tractor running again after it sat dead for 3 years and now I am fixing my snowblower. Keep up the great work!

This video helped me resurrect a 1971 Rupp mini bike that has sat for at least 25 years. It had neon green gas in the carb bowl! Thanks for your expertise and humorous video.

Great trick with the primer and fuel lines ! I dont know why Taryl doesnt have more subs he certainly deserves them, He has helped me fix several mowers and snowblowers hats off to the boys at Grass Rats Garage

Let's not forget to mention the screwdriver in the handle of another trick. Mind blowing.

S.O.S. For Taryl!!! Taryl, everyone appreciates your expansive knowledge about small engines. Your the only tech who actually calls the parts by their respective names, knows each purpose and is top quality all around. Many of us are being scammed by Briggs and Stratton on those Nikki 6 modified carbs without the fuel cellanoid. The ones used in snowblowers! I know here our main small engine shop claims they are not rebuildable because they leak! Even the plastic inner body piece holding the float and pin is like 100 Canadian dollars for a 1cent part!!! I bought an Amazon rebuild kit with this part and many others to rebuild it. Can you make an episode and show us how exactly so we don’t have to worry about leakage once we install it. Many thanks...

I spent 37 minutes of my Saturday night watching this. The amazing part was that I was riveted to the video the entire 37 minutes!!! It was more educational and entertaining than the majority of movies I could have been watching on the latest streaming platform! Jam packed with little tidbits only a true professional would know, along with a healthy dose of humor! I'll never be intimidated by a carbertraitor again! And there's your dinner! :-)

Hi Taryl. Thank you for.your informative videos. You are both a skilled technician and a comedic genius! My 3.5 tecumseh roto tiller engine’s throttle would flutter and hunt for fuel even though I cleaned the carb five times, so after watching one of your videos, I pulled out the brass low speed idle jet and found that I couldn’t get an eighteen thousandths (.018) piece of bread tie wire through it, so I then drilled it out with a twenty two thousandths (.022) drill that I spun by hand with my pin vice and wala, the drill poked through. I put the carb back together and installed it and now my tecumseh runs like new! No throttle flutter and a smooth idle to boot. You are the coolest dude on the net for engines!!! Thanks again!!!

Thanks Taryl. After watching your channel, I went out and cleaned and tapped the points and tuned the carb on my 1978 Yardman Snowbird. Free Craigslist score. Tecumish is ready to go now.

It's just like watching "American Chopper" but an intellectual version!! Love it!!

Great video! Thanks for showing us the small details that will save us from more problems later.

Taryl gives us his experience, like no one else. Thanks, Taryl!

Thanks Taryl. Needed your fine instruction. Gave me the confidence to dive in. Have an old sears, same Tecumseh engine, over 38 yrs old. It still lives and looking forward to using it this winter.

Awesome. Just rebuilt 7HP Tecumseh carb. Now starts first pull, idles nice. Did not know about that slide tube. Thanks for the toothtorial.

Got my 46 year old Tecumseh VM70 running again after following your how-to carb rebuild! Thank you! It's on a John Deere lawn tractor.

@5:29 Never realized what the holes in the top of some screwdriver handles were for. Mind blown. Many thanks.

Thank you for the great how to video. I’ve always been hands off and intimidated on carbs because I never had the knowledge nor anyone to show me. The detailed information and step by step is so appreciated.

Best dang snowblower info vid i seen so far!! You dudes ROCK! HUGE THAnk you

Hey Tim, I've been watching your videos for the past year or 2. I never realized you're 25 minutes from me. I've been doing this for 30+ years as well but learn a lot from you. I worked for Rigg's in Valpo. I get most of my parts from Lafayette Warehouse which is 3 minutes from me. Keep doing what you're doing. Thank you.

Thanks for the video, it helped me get my snow blower running again.

this was a huge help with mine. thank you. That stupid little vent hole was plugged so bad that it looked like it didn't even have 1.

Just worked on my carb today fired it up still surging ...going back in now that I watched this, great video... Thank you!!

you guys by far the most informative , and complete ways to rebuilt carbs I've seen ,,, bravo

Outstanding video! For me, it was worth watching to learn that technique for installing the new fuel line. I just finished the rebuild and added a new fuel line with little effort.

I have watched a lot of videos on cleaning carburetors and your video is the only one to address my problem. When I got the snowblower I noticed the low speed needle was marred up a bit on the end. I cleaned the carb and it ran good wide open, but it wouldn't idle. I had a sneaking suspicion the carb was hooped after seeing the end of the needle, but now I know that I need a new carbutrator, because my tube doesn't go up and down (near enough, haha!). Next time I will search for "carbutrators". You really know your carbutrators. Thanks.

Howling with laughter and picking up crucial points: THANK YOU!

Taryl I think you are an awesome teacher. Thanks to you and your videos I'm working on all kinds of units here in Rochester, N.Y. Thanks

Thanks for doing the most detailed takedown of a Tecumseh carb I have ever seen and being downright hilarious in the process.

These videos be very entertaining! I watched your video and I learned a lot about these 516 carbatraitors, enough that I decided to just buy a knockoff Chinese carbatraitor on eBay for $15 & 20 min to swap it out and it's getting the job done. I still have the old one and if I ever have the time to rebuild it to keep my old snowblower matching #s I will... At least I know how to tune them based on what I learned from your video....and there's your dinner! Classic!

Thanks guys. I gotta say I did my carb on the snow blower, n knew nothing about these small engines but mine is now running great. Learned a lot in 42 mins, a few good laughs

I just rebuilt a gummed up carburetor on a 18hp Briggs and Stratton in a John Deere GT235. It's running like a new machine. Thank you for your videos.

best video I have seen on cleaning these carberstrators :)

Nice set of instructions complete with part numbers! Cool. Thanks a lot!

Thank You Taryl, I watch you video, about your tip on the small hole it worked. Your tip on the float was my original problem, so thanks again.

Another excellent video. Thanks for the knowledge and explicit instructions. I swear by Stabil fuel additive. It has saved me from a lot of grief from carburetors gummed up from time degraded gasoline.

Best video for a carburetor rebuild...thanks for posting.

This is by far the best "Tecumehs" winter engine carburetor rebuild/cleaning video I have watched and I have watched 20 or 30 in the last few years on youtube a lot of the other videos were also from people who do this for a living, so that really is saying something. I work on carbs all the time and even I get leary about pulling O-rings, although most have brass tube's. I must need a more powerful compressor because my needle seat doesn't blow out. I'm gonna have to get that tool, I work on a lot of Tec carbs and I need to be able to pull that seat and be able to properly put the new one in. But anyway this video was thorough it covered every piece of a carb rebuild on one of them. Things like that brass tube getting crushed, had no clue. Really, really well done. I don't know how anyone could not like this video, you would have to be a moron or one of the other people with carb repair videos that just got showed up with their dinner on a plate. I just rebuilt one yesterday, yes in late June, why? Because I went and picked up a snowblower dirt cheap that had a 10hp Tecumehs and that bad boy is going on my Snapper 8/24 this winter. Its going to be a bad ass 10/24 which no one ever made stock. I need it ready I use it commercially 90-100 hours a winter easy. The 8 was a good engine and had good power but its getting tired from the 1000 hours on it by now easy. This new/old engine ran kinda crappy when I got it, opened the carb, gum deposit's, stale fuel, bad o rings on the nozzle and a float that was set down to China. I just repaired that carb the best I ever repaired one and now that engine purrs like a kitten. Now all I have to do in the fall is pull the old one and throw the new one on done. Go blow snow and make the big bucks. Anyway enough rambling, theeeee best carb repair video on youtube, by far, well done and it comes with laughs and theirs a ton of other great videos on this channel. Best one out their. I might need to get me one of those spark plug necklaces, I think I earned it now!

VERY GOOD video instruction on the tecumseh carbs, geez i wish this Vid was around 5years back when i was doing up my ohv 12.5hp, those sneaky holes, great refresher course..thumbs UP..

All great stuff! Good job as always, Taryl.

One of the best videos I've seen yet thank you

Great video. Very clear and it will help me and a whole bunch of people. Thanks.

great videos taryl..very entertaining. you and donyboy73 are the go to people on youtube.

Hey guys, I wanted to say thank you for putting these videos together and letting those of us who are interested benefit from your years of experience. I just finished a log splitter, (sorely needed and gratuitously given to me) and as usual I do first then learn how to do what I just did. Allow me to share with you, I needed to swap out the plastic governor gear and the shaft was a press fit. I'm quite proud of the trick I figured out. After measuring very carefully I drilled a hole in the case just big enough to get a small blind punch in there and presto, or more accurately, bango. I hammered the shaft out, put the new gearand on and tapped it back in. I did find a " small engine specialist" telling someone to use vice grips and "twist" the shaft out on a website. I can't see anything good coming from that advice. As always thanks, and there's your dinner!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - and entertaining too, perfect for DIYer like me who knows just enough to screw things up. I have a 20ish year old Toro that hadn’t run in a long time, needed attention. I’m in a technical field, arrogantly thought that a simple “tune-up” was something any simpleton could do without any instructions. Yeah. That was in 2015 and the ****ing thing hadn’t run right since...surging, stalled under load, backfiring, you name it. This video covers everything I needed to know, now I’m launching snow across the street like a champion. (In my case, I had damaged the needle seat, not cleaned the jets properly, and smushed an o ring on the emulsion tube. Result was leaky carb, surging, only running on full choke and dogging out under anything more than a light load. Now it runs like a champion. Thanks!

Thank you Very useful, helped me a lot to service and repair my TVM140 with the 632253 carburetor 👍

Nice video on the techumech carburetor proper rebuild. Your videos are a lot of fun and informative. Keep up the good work and keep the new video’s coming thank you for all of your time and help that you are able to help the little guy that don’t know what to do, So they maybe able to make some repair’s for them self’s.

You Really know What You Are Doing. Great Job. Thank You !

You have the best tips and tricks, thank you!!!!!

Entertaining and very informative. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Great tip for replacing the fuel line.

Great tips. Thanks for posting.

I love it. Don't even be lookin' in there!!!

Yet again great info . Will apply to larger mowers over this side of the pond , As we dont really have snow blowers , Just down to earth , Great how to . Again have to thank you for the gear we received today . I will put some pictures on facebook later . Regards Pete.

Very informative, made my much simpler and learned a few things Thanks

Thanks Tayrl, great tutorial. I already pulled the old fuel line through before attaching the new one. Thot I would have to pull the starter wheel off, but cutting the new line on an angle made a pointy end and it pushed through just fine.

best carb cleaning video I have seen

Very talented and easy to understand...Best detailed video by far"

Thanks. I truly learned how to rebuild a carburetor on the different engines. The rebuild I did. I think I put the fuel needle in while holding the carb in the wrong direction. The problems I am having is one of those. I will have to remove the carb again to see if that happened. I may also have put the float bowl on in the wrong direction. We will see. Thanks. You are really great in explaining how to do the jobs.

Thanks for the great tips!

Hey, I've fixeted carburtrators too. But mine worked, thanks for the Q-tip!

That gas hose/primer trick was worth putting up with Uncle Andy. Have a Great Thanksgiving.

Great instructional video. Enjoy your presentation

thanks for all your hard work very nice video I learned a lot

Learned a lot. Thanks.

Unbelievable I thought I knew just about everything about carburetors but yet prove me wrong and thanks you got this gosh dang snowblower going again

Florida here. The preheater hasn’t got much use in our state but the carburetor info is great! Thanks so much. The characters in your videos need psychiatric help. So, so funny.🤪. Love it!

i got an old toro like that one last year and i had to do the same to it as what your doing to that one. I also changed the brass float to the plastic one. Thanks

thanks for all the info i enjoy your videos

I always used to have bad luck with these Tecscrumshen carbs. Now I learned a few things I didn't know before, like that tube that goes up and down. What in the world does that do? Thanks for taking out the time to show us how and including all the part numbers. It takes some of the work outta doin work. Much appreciated. ;) ...and there's YOUR dinner.

some really good tips on things easily over looked

Great video.. I'd like to add, the middle shaft of the needle & seat install tool # 670377.. the flat spot with the part number on it.... can be used to set the float height. Span it across the body and the float should touch the tool just right.

👍gotta love TARYL’s shop 👍🇺🇸

great video thank you for sharing.

Thanks for sharing ALL of your KNOWLEDGE Taryl, and CREW!! Happy Thanksgiving all the way from JAWJA!! AWESOME VIDEO BROTHER!

I use the same method for the primer line and fuel lines. BTW nice 4-21 toro .. nice little machine.

Great stuff Taryl!!!!!!

Lots of good information. I know this will come in handy soon. Thanks for producing another funny and useful video. Hope you and family have a nice Thanksgiving!

amazing job

You're always the best.

awesome rebuild...best one!!!

I seen this and had to watch it. Best video out there

Great / Great / Great Video to rebuild a carburetor - also - thank's for all the tip's - I was about to throw my snow thrower in the street for the metal guy to pick it up but now seeing your video I am not - Thank's Once Again !

Thanks Taryl for your hilarious and informative videos. This and the video on governor set-up have helped me DIY my way to a working snowblower in less then 2hrs. Not bad for a nubie!!

Hi Taryl. I have a Craftsman 179cc snowblower with a Tecumseh engine ZS365-SUA. Unit Model # 31AM32AD77, Serial # 1F258B40634, Craftsman #247.887550. It's an MTD Product. Carb # 751-10974, I put the carb through the ultra sonic cleaner several times, I also hand drilled the low speed jet to the next size. New plug, filter, Etc.. nothing leaking. Note: the unit had been left outside. I had a lot of sanding with my wire brush on my drill to do in-order to get all the linkages cleaned and rust free. All is working fine now except I'm getting surging after the engine has been running a bit. I apply the choke and the surging seem to stop. That's why I cleaned the low speed jet as per your video. I DID NOTICE WHEN ALL IS SET TO NORMAL, RUNNING FULL SPEED, AND IT STARTS TO SURGE, WHEN I REMOVE THE GAS CAP IT STOPS SURGING. Gas Cap Bad? Thanks, John

Great info!!

You’re my hero!

Taryl, I have learned so much from you now I need a logo

Thanks, man, I learned a lot from your video, On how to fix your "Carbutrator" I meant Carburator. All the best and Happy New Year to you and your family.

Great video!!! Thanks!!

If you lay that Tecumsea tool on its flat side..( the handle) should be the proper bowl adjustment ( distance) I think..If im not mistaken. Great video !!!

After watching this video , I'm ready to start my own business, Thanks

glad i found this video i have an older snow blower that has this engine in it but i don’t have the carburetor i take pipe would you know the part numbers for those by chance thanks and keep the videos coming 👍

That's damn good stuff right there

thanks for sharing...