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Originally Posted by Ariel Red Hunter
Yeah, mine is like the little red one. So those aren't supposed to be used on 18 HP Briggs opposed twins?...ARH
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If you ask a factory trained tech, he'll have a hiss fit over the small red filters being used instead of a paper element filter with a fuel pump. It's possible for very fine debris to be pumped through the screen and into the carb jets. Where a gravity feed system doesn't push fuel through the carb, so any debris will usually settle in the bottom of the carb bowl. If your fuel container is clean, and your fuel tank is clean, you may never have problem with just the little round filters. My ride on mower didn't come with a filter from the fractory. I added one after I had carb problems. It made it about five years with no problems before I installed the filter. My mower dosen't have a fuel pump. It's gravity feed system.