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Bookmark or Share- Using steel lift rods instead of aluminum | Lawn Mower ForumHey all, I have a broken intake pushrod with my Intek/Briggs&Stratton 331777. About 2 years ago I blew the head gasket. I fixed it and all was well until about 2 weeks ago when aluminum intake rod broke in half. I took off the head and pull the pushrod out, which had broken right in half...
- Briggs & Stratton - Lawn Mower ForumBriggs & Stratton. Discuss repair of Briggs & Stratton engines in this forum. 1; 2; 3 ...
- Briggs and Stratton 17.5 valve adjustment help - Lawn Mower ForumBriggs single cylinder vertical OHV engine use a crossflow head, Which means the intake is on the bottom. If you are sure you have the valves adjusted correctly, then while turning the flywheel slowly watch for the intake valve/ bottom to bump off seat slightly just before TDC compression.
- Ignition conversion kit for old briggs? - Lawn Mower ForumInstead of breaking the wire off, as he suggested, I just cut the primary wire off as far back as I can reach and the install the new coil according to the instructions. Take you old coil into any repair shop that does Briggs service work, with all the engine numbers and they probably have the Magnatron coil for your unit in stock.
- 17.5HP Briggs and Stratton Valve adjustment, what are symptoms of over ...On the Briggs engines, the ramps are quite small and tighter EPA emission regulations cause them to be smaller. That is why Briggs recommend 1/4" to 1/2" past TDC to set the valve clearences. On a mower engine too much clearence defeats the decompression so the starter will get to TDC on compression & not be able to get past it.
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