re: Any lawnmower repair baws in the house?

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Install a new carb and I bet it runs fine. Many of these carbs just don’t function well with cleaning or rebuilding and new replacement carbs are usually cheap. That’s been my experience over the years. I’ll clean the carb once, if it doesn’t correct the problem, then a new carb goes on.

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this ^^^^^^

whats happening is the air filter provides a restriction so its sucking too much gas in and that raw gas burning is the smoke you are seeing.

small chance its a bad air filter not letting air through it but its gonna be the carb.

you can buy a new carb for it for about $10 which is only $5 more then a carb kit costs to clean and rebuild that carb, its just pointless to try unless you just like tinkering with stuff