My son and I picked up a self propelled mower sitting alongside a dumpster at a RV park. It looked pretty good and our old one was getting hard to start.



We found that the float valve was pressed into the carburetor body (not threaded) and the vibration moved it down so the carb could not get very much gas. Drove it back into place and staked the valve into place with a center punch around the edges. We put the second year on it this summer.

Jon.