Briggs 5hp sputters out
 

This 5hp briggs is kinda old but its a fun power, I believe.. It will idle okay but when you give her some throttle it sputters than shuts off... It will start right up with one pull choke on... Then choke off she idles... DON'T PUSH THE GAS THOUGH!!!! ;) please help if possible.. Thanks!!

Briggs engines use what looks like an idle screw to adjust the air/fuel ratio. Do half turn increments in or out trying each way. When it improves, keep going at half turn intervals until it starts getting worse again. Then back it off until you have reached your optimal performance. Prior to doing that, you may want to count the number of turns in until it bottoms out (so you have a reference point) and pull that entire jet assembly off and make sure that the jet is clean. Then put it back in, and turn it back out as many as you had to turn in (to get to the same starting point) and tune from there. They are actually one of the easier ones to tune because of the way they handle that main jet.

Okay, thanks man I will give this a try in the morning!! :)

Yea man we are just putting the 5hp to the side it wont stop shutting down. For 99.99 harbor freight has the gx200 clones so we are just gonna throw one of them on her. Thanks for all the help tho man you Rock!! Just picked up a Murray Explorer frame, I'm so STOKED!!!! Got a clone sitting for her in the box when shes all together:)

We used to have one of those explorers. Expensive and difficult to find parts but a very sturdy machine when in good shape.

Sounds like the carb needs a cleaning and maybe a diaphram. TOM