China Clone Flo Jet Carb ?

[Sawdust]

Before I take a hammer to it. If you remember last year I got my Simplicity 3415H and it had an aftermarket carb. It worked great but I didn’t like the manual choke and my choke cable was too short to reach it as is. I got tired of forgetting to choke it before climbing on. I couldn’t leave well enough alone so I reversed the choke shaft putting the lever on the back side and connecting the choke cable. While doing this I had to also reverse the choke butterfly on the shaft. I never used it much until recently.

My question is would this alteration cause problems tuning the carb. I can get it to idle good , WOT good, idles down good. I can drive away but in less than five minutes it bogs down while going up a slight hill then immediately hunts while idling. I limp back to the shop and do the same thing over again but noticing the adjusting screws are in a different position as before. I took it apart three times, I know it’s clean, float bowl is parallel with the body, emulsion tube is seated hood and the weird but good thing is it never leaks like a lot of these do. The only thing I’m thinking is too reverse the choke back the way it was and see what happens.

I read when buying a China clone is to compare them to the original throttle lever position. If the cable hole area is sitting at 2:00 then it’s good and close to specs. If it’s sitting at 10:00 it’s junk, Mine is sitting on the hood side.

If reversing it back doesn’t help I might get a rebuild kit or find an original and rebuild it.

 

[Propane1]

I can drive away but in less than five minutes it bogs down while going up a slight hill then immediately hunts while idling. I limp back to the shop and do the same thing over again but noticing the adjusting screws are in a different position as before.

If you put the adjusting screws back to where they were, does it then work Jim. ?

Noel

 

[Lily'sDad]

It's easier to make a longer choke cable than all of that.

 

[Sawdust]

If you put the adjusting screws back to where they were, does it then work Jim. ?

Noel

I wasn’t clear on that Noel. They aren’t moving on their own I just meant basically to get it back to running good they are not in the same position as before. Each time I get it running good the adjusting screws are in different positions

 

[Sawdust]

It's easier to make a longer choke cable than all of that.

Not always this one is not coming off without destroying it

 

[Toomanytoys84]

I don’t have an answer but in all honesty I’ve had Chinese carbs that worked perfect and some that never worked. I’d try to return the choke back to normal since it sounds like it worked perfect before you changed that.

 

[CRF6179]

I put a flo-jet clone on a simplicity 7116. Cable hook up was the same. My problem was it leaked just like the original one did!!!

 

[MFDAC]

I recently bought 2-8' choke cables for about 22 bucks shipped. Good thing I bought two because I screwed up measuring and it ended up to short! It's still long enough to use on a different tractor at least! The second one to the rescue! I used part of one for a new throttle cable too.


DAC

 

[Sawdust]

Yesterday I reversed the choke shaft and butterfly like it was originally. This morning I put it back on and it’s a shame I’m less than an inch short of the choke cable reaching the carb in this position. When I decide to paint this frame I’ll have to remove the dash box again so I’ll install a longer cable then. It took awhile to get it adjusted but it seemed to run better. Before, I could only drive for about three minutes then had to limp back to the shop and adjust again. This morning I drove about twenty minutes went up and down some hills and it ran well. I engaged the mower deck and the governor kicked in under a load as it should. So far I’m happy with it but another test to make sure is to see how it does a day or so later. I just can’t believe this made a difference but it did. Thanks again guys for your responses.