I am trying to ressurect a 1980's 4hp Briggs horizontal shaft engine that came off of a shredder/chipper. In its current set-up, the only speed control is an adjustment on the governor spring, and for choke it has a slide choke "piston" at the end of the carb.
When I got the engine, I was told that the head gasket was blown. I dissassembled it and found a distorted head bolt; bought a new head gasket, replaced the bolt, and reassembled, realizing that the thing had sat for 10 years with gas and so there was likely to be other problems. I took off the carb-mounted tank and drained the gas and reassembled hoping for the best. This is the briggs carb type that has two fuel pick-ups: a long one to the bottom of the tank and a short one to an interior tank bowl.
And...sure enough, there is one little problem (so far)! The long fuel pick-up tube, when I dissassembled the tank, is loose, loose enough when I finally got the engine to start and was trying to adjust the carb, it suddenly stopped, and sure enough, the long pick-up tube was sitting on the bottom of the tank. It appears to be a press-in tube, but there is not enough friction to hold it in place. Any suggestions? Is there a type of epoxy that I could use to secure it? Or do I need to somehow force the tube into its socket deeper?
The long tube consists of a two-piece assembly: the top half is a brass tube that presses into the carb housing, the bottom half a plastic tube with pick-up screen at the bottom, crimped onto the brass tube with some sort of clamp. I don't want to tap on the plastic tube to try to force the brass into the carb assembly further for fear of breaking it, and if I slip the plastic half off of the brass one, I am worried about breaking the plastic that way or not being able to get it back on the end.
Thanks!
Robert
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When I got the engine, I was told that the head gasket was blown. I dissassembled it and found a distorted head bolt; bought a new head gasket, replaced the bolt, and reassembled, realizing that the thing had sat for 10 years with gas and so there was likely to be other problems. I took off the carb-mounted tank and drained the gas and reassembled hoping for the best. This is the briggs carb type that has two fuel pick-ups: a long one to the bottom of the tank and a short one to an interior tank bowl.
And...sure enough, there is one little problem (so far)! The long fuel pick-up tube, when I dissassembled the tank, is loose, loose enough when I finally got the engine to start and was trying to adjust the carb, it suddenly stopped, and sure enough, the long pick-up tube was sitting on the bottom of the tank. It appears to be a press-in tube, but there is not enough friction to hold it in place. Any suggestions? Is there a type of epoxy that I could use to secure it? Or do I need to somehow force the tube into its socket deeper?
The long tube consists of a two-piece assembly: the top half is a brass tube that presses into the carb housing, the bottom half a plastic tube with pick-up screen at the bottom, crimped onto the brass tube with some sort of clamp. I don't want to tap on the plastic tube to try to force the brass into the carb assembly further for fear of breaking it, and if I slip the plastic half off of the brass one, I am worried about breaking the plastic that way or not being able to get it back on the end.
Thanks!
Robert
T