We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Many small gasoline-powered equipment have a common problem lurking in wait for you -- the dreaded, and almost inevitable, clogged carburetor.

How do I clean the carburetor if old gas has clogged it? Cleaning your small engine’s carburetor isn’t terribly daunting, but I recommend that you have the correct service manual for your engine and a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For those who have experienced the frustration of a mower that just refuses to start or struggles to idle, it could be a result of a dirty ...

When it comes to engines and our fiendish desire to make them more powerful, it's often easy to fall into a few traps. This is because there are a lot of wives' tales, myths, and misnomers out there ...

Just because a carburetor is cheap doesn't mean it isn't worth bolting to your intake. David Freiburger, Steve Dulcich, and Steve Brul want to find out if three of the cheapest carburetors on the ...

They say size is everything, and that seems to hold true with the connection between car crafters and carburetors. But there's more to mixing fuel and air than just cubic feet per minute. Often the ...

Regardless of the larger target of extracting big power from your engine build is the primary goal of building a well-tuned combination that provides strong performance across the rpm band. And as ...

The choke valve in an engine's carburetor, whether it's a Holley carburetor or another brand, helps a cold engine start by restricting some of the airflow into it. When the engine is cold, the choke ...

Do you have a snowblower, rototiller, generator or other piece of small, motorized equipment that’s hard to start or won’t start at all? This is not unusual here in cold Canadian winters, but there ...

In automotive nomenclature, small-block V8 engines are typically physically smaller than their big-block counterparts, hence the nickname. With some exceptions, the piston bores, stroke, cylinder head ...