Stop Your Engine Surging! (Easy DIY Tutorial!)

Stop your Honda engine, Briggs and Stratton engine, Kawasaki, Kohler and any other 4 stroke governed engine from surging. Lawn mowers and pressure washers, generators and snow blowers, it’s all the same fix! Surging happens because of too much air or too little gas. This easy diy tutorial will help you diagnose and repair this frustrating issue at home!

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00:00 Fix a surging lawn mower
00:33 What is surging?
00:51 What does surging sound like?
01:12 What causes surging?
02:45 Removing the carburetor
04:10 How to clean a carburetor
06:50 How to drill out a jet?
08:10 How does a carburetor work?

[VintageEngineRepairs]

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[treecycle]

I thought you were working on a new mower until you took the cowling off. You have very good knowledge of carby internals of where the fuel and air should go.

[waynestefinashen]

Tom one of your best videos very informative and well put together. These carbs are a pain but good for business here in Canada. The jets are so small just a small piece of debris that gets through the fuel tank screen is enough to make it run poorly, hunt or not start at all. Those jets are only held in with O rings and if you ever get one that is flooding ie: low rpm and black smoke the jet has loosened off and fuel is bypassing the O ring. I know this for a fact when i kept using carb cleaner with the straw and was actually pushing the jet back in place without knowing it. Customer would use the machine for a lawn cutting and sometimes into the second cutting and it would flood out again. Not until i ran it in the ultrasonic cleaner did i find the jet falling out and realised the problem. Reinstalled the jet with some SealAll glue around the OD only pushed back in a voila good to go and still running smooth. It was cheaper than replacing the module which runs around $20 Cdn.

[HobbyMotorDK]

Really nice video - great graphics and close-ups 👍👍

[almclean]

Another educational video from teacher Tom 🍎🍎

[frankodonnell]

Thank you for taking the time to record this video. It gave me the confidence to go in and repair the carb myself.

[gregbakke]

Very good no nonsense information. Hats off to you. I repaired small engines as a side line many years ago and always learn something from you. Thank you, from the Midwest USA.

[Mihacappy]

Randomly came across this. Decided to watch out of boredom - ended up finding out why stale fuel is bad. Pushmower no longer surges while cold, thank you

[cecilkoselke]

You seem to be my kind of man. Liking what you do. Just subscribed. I live 20 minutes from Taryl.

[danielg]

Thank you, this was very helpful.
I did my surging Biggs and Stratton engine, very similar plastic carb, and the actual jet piece that you can pull apart were the pilot jet is was full of tiny pieces of grass.

[rcbustanut]

I have a Honda mower, it was surging & kinda struggling when going over tall grass.
I took apart the carb & used the seafoam intake cleaner that comes with the red straw to sprayed the crap out of it & used the straw to put pressure through all those fine holes you pointed out. Put it back together and & added a bit of the seafoam you add to the gas tank as well. Problem solved, put new blades as well & that puppy is purring nice & now I can go over tall grass without stalling. And that was my 1st "taking a carb apart" job lol, glad I didn't wreck it! 😂

[neilpatrickhairless]

Something to be extra mindful of when taking apart the E series carbs is making sure to keep track of the super tiny rubber tip that goes on the needle valve. If it ever pops off (doesn't take much for it to pop off) you'll likely never see it again. Your needle valve will not work properly without that tip so you might as well replace the entire carb because a replacement needle valve is only a few bucks cheaper than the entire carburetor

[RonaldPhillips-zmkk]

Excellent. Having tried many other suggestions to stop surging with no avail, the drilling out of the pilot Jet cured the issue on my B&S mower engine.

[Supertech-]

Thanks, had the same unit of the Yard Machines variety, the .035 drill to jet worked, adjusted valves too .. still had a little erratic running so I filled the tank and put a splash of water remover (methanol) in the tank and it smoothed right out.

[alphamale]

So helpful - thanks very much for taking the time to create this content!

[tinkeringtaylor]

You've done again Tom, made a very good video and explained it well 👍👍(did you see the crack in the breather pipe )

[lukaszbebnowski]

Great video, thank you for making and sharing. One thing that shocked me though, is to see that even lawn mower manufacturers are now using cheap plastic parts to build. Disgraceful when you think about it. Plastic parts are cheaper to make, break down faster/or more often and the lawnmowers cost same if not more than the mowers made back in the day using non plastic parts.

[TheAl]

Cheers, I have the same mower with the same problem and now I just fixed it with your help. New Zealand 🇳🇿

[tonymac]

Bravo 👏 the best video by far, very clear and excellent footage, told in layman's terms..thank you

[SomethingShowYou]

5:52 "we'll gently pry" OMG!! was I the only one that thought he broke it? 😂