🔧 Briggs & Stratton 594601 Carb Review

I have a Craftsman mower with a 19hp B&S Gold+ engine. Last season, just before winter, they put it in my regular carbs. I was in a bind and picked up the $20 Revain unit just to run it at the end of the season. I should have just spent $100 and gotten this device from the start. Another block made my lawn mower splash and backfire. No matter what he did, nothing helped. I replaced the new block and everything runs smoothly with no jumps or kickbacks and the throttle works as it should. When a…

I have a Snapper ST1842 with Briggs and Stratton 18.5hp Intek. The mower is clean and always kept indoors. The old Nikki carburetor gave me only problems: it worked intermittently and ended up filling the engine with so much gas that it ended up in the oil. I rebuilt the carburetor with a Briggs carburetor rebuild kit but that didn't work. I was considering using one of the fake carburetors but you can't tell me if they will work properly with such a wide range of attachments. It was worth the…

This was a direct replacement for the original troublesome Nikki carburetor on my mother's lawn mower engine. The Nikki has a lousy design: the plastic lower half is connected to the aluminum carburettor body by a float chamber. The engine was humming and wouldn't keep a constant rpm so I cleaned and overhauled the carburetor which only helped temporarily before it became unreliable again. This carburetor is machined from a single piece of aluminum, eliminating the need for a complex gasket…

For the last few years my 2011 Craftsman YT3000 (Husqvarna) has been bugging me. Difficult to start in cold weather. If it caught fire, it often died instantly. I changed the spark plug and filter, adjusted the valves, ground the magneto and magneto in the cap. It seemed to help a little, but last week I couldn't do anything to get it working again. I had a feeling it might get swamped on launch as it "grabs" and then quickly dies. If I adjust the throttle correctly, it sometimes starts. I did…

I started out with a Nikki carburetor on my 21hp B&S mower. Like all Nikki carbs, mine started giving me problems. I've built/rebuilt dozens of carbs so I took on this one. I reinstalled it 3 times, each time I got different problems. On the last rebuild it worked great, I reamed the main jet to run a bit richer, now it has more power, performance has dropped a lot and among other things it seemed to run at a lower cost on previous rebuilds. After the 3rd repair I went inside and excitedly…