Id for engine on Ransomes Marquis 51
Hi
I have a ransomes mower with a briggs and Stratton 3hp motor , which died in mid cut.
It is a carburettor issue , because ir runs on carb cleaner , but the Engine plate has gone and someone has said that it was not original to the mower.. Can someone tell me the model of the engine so that i can source a diaphragm or even a carburetter.? Everything possible has been removed and cleaned and fresh petrol used to no avail.I suspect the pick up tube of the carb , or possibly the diaphragm.
Many Thanks
Forums
As Wristpin says, A picture
As Wristpin says, A picture would help, but the only Ransome machines that used a 3hp B&S I can remember, were the Marquis or Auto-certes. This was an horizontal crankshaft engine and the carb was sat on top of the fuel tank, and there is a diaphragm on the side of the carb, behind a plate retained with 4 small screws. If this describes your engine, then you need a 270026 diaphragm.
Many thanks
Many thanks
i did pin images but they obviously did not stick.Your description is spot on
Peter Cotgrove
For a start let's have an
For a start let's have an image or two.
You say that the engine "plate" is missing. Briggs engines of that size and age usually had the engine id info stamped into the blower housing ( the cowling that carries the recoil starter) not on a plate. So unless there are a couple of empty rivet holes with the shadow of a plate I would say that there will be stamped in numbers , unless, of course, its had a new blower housing at some point.
Likely positions for the numbers are horizontally adjacent to the spark plug or on the vertical surface facing the fuel tank but I recently came across one with the numbers on the opposite vertical surface facing the front of a machine.
Going back to " died in mid cut" , did it show distress and splutter to a stop or was it as though it had been switched off? If the former you are possibly right in suspecting a fuel issue but if the latter, look elsewhere.