If you are saying that it runs every time, but you have to prime it first, just add some Sea Foam to the fuel and over time the carb will clean itself.

Baymee, it does start everytime but only if I prime it. How much Sea Foam should I add to the fuel? Are there instructions on the can? Thank you for your response.

Jeremy

I'm fairly certain you are supposed to prime it every time to start it. That being said, those eager 1 engines are junk and the carbs are horrible.

If all it takes is one push of the primer to get it running I don't think you have much, if any problem. Certainly not enough to spend any money trying to fix. Just get back to mowing grass!

From what I've seen in my shop, the Eager 1 mowers were probably the most durable mower ever sold by Sears. I see them from the 90s with the wheels still intact.

Add about 1 oz. of Sea Foam per gallon of gas.

The primer bulb takes the place of a lot of extra engineering of how to get the mower to start easily. They've been in use for a lot of years. Only problems with that type are dirt in the tank, in the fuel line and filter, bad float, plugged air bleeder hole in gas cap, or a hole in the little rubber primer bulb! Some of them have a hole in the bulb made that way.

Speaking of the hole in the primer bulb, I discovered something recently that I never gave much thought to.

A customer went to his Briggs dealer and was given a primer bulb with no hole to repair a late model 6.5HP engine. The engine would start and run for two seconds and die....repeatedly.

I know from experience that these engines all use the bulb with the hole in it, so I swapped it out on a hunch.

The engine started and ran perfectly. Although there are both type of bulbs, the same type of bulb must be used for replacement.