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briggs & stratton lawn mower starts but immediately stops?

briggs & stratton lawn mower Sprint 375 with primer button starts with primed amount of fuel then immediately stops....WHY??? filter is clean, spark plug is new, good spark, good fuel transfer when priming, mower only 18 months old and well looked after
Peter H, January 2011
mine is similar. looks like we bought lemons.....

Kev, January 2011
Hi there’s two reasons it could be one you have a dirty filter in the tank or more likely the carburettor diaphragm has gone we change these as standard on every b/s machine we service ether way you will need to have a new one any way as you have to split the tank to clean the filter to carry out this you will require a 10mm socket a ½ inch socket and a flat & pos screw driver please take correct health and safety when carrying out this procedures wear correct safety equipment
1)remove air filter flat screw on top
2)un bolt tank there’s a 10mm stud located at front and a ½ stud located at the side under where you have taken the air filter of
3)carefully remove and unclip throttle linkage
4)clean and remove pos screw around carb
5)gently remove carb from tank to revile diaphragm there are to filters on the carb both need cleaning
6)remove old diaphragm and replace in reverse order we sell the parts if you require them just email me as it will not let me put our web adds in
quincecowell at btinternet.com
replace the at with corect Symbol no spaces the only way it would let me enter it

quincecowell at btinternet.com swale lawnmower and landscaping services, January 2011
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