Briggs & Stratton 596079 Carburetor Genuine Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Part

Installed and runs like new again!

The carburetor is OEM so it’s a perfect fit. It came with all required gaskets. You will need to use the choke handle from your old carburetor and it’s a simple changeover. Once I got it installed, I turned the gas on, cranked it and it started and ran perfectly on the second pull. Since then it has started on the first pull now that the gas is primed properly. It’s been several years since the roto tiller has ran with this much power and this smoothly. Very happy I bought it.

Perfect fit and engine ran like new.

Replaced a 20+ year old pressure washer 1.5 years ago with Snapper using the 208cc B&S engine. In less than 10 hours of use carb went out. Just to take in for service would have been 75 bucks, so cheaper to replace. Read reviews and ordered the OE carb, easy enough to install with some metric sockets and needle nose pliers. Install pretty straightforward, careful to orient gaskets correctly. Yes the fuel inlet was a 90 elbow, not straight like original, but in this app line slid on and not kinked, clamp had space to seal. Had to swap out the fuel cutoff lever (on/off) as new one was shorter and hit on carb cover. No problem on that end. Immediately started up and did not cutout any more. Ran fine for first hour, have fingers crossed new carb better than the original. Avoided the super cheap knockoffs that would have been worse than garbage original. Real level of BS is why? The engine is cheap very large Asian country origin. Long gone are days a typical 5-6hp engine will last a decade or two. B&S use to be American staple. Now just stands for cheapened BS sold out to cheap large Asian country origin.

I have been told by "expert" small engine mechanics to pay the extra money to get OEM branded carburetors. True or not, this worked as expected. The photo and description did NOT include or show gaskets. One of two gaskets did come in the box. Only the outboard (least important) one was supplied, so I had to cut a new gasket to fit the inboard (between motor block and carb). Not an easy task if you dont have round hole punches. Fortunately I had a piece of metal pipe I sharpened to use as a punch for the large hole, and used a spent 38 cal. bullet shell to punch the bolt holes. There is another very small hole necessary that I had an old paperboy paper punch and got it pretty close. It's all together and motor fires up nicely. OPTIONS FOR GASKETS TO CONSIDER: 1. Buy gasket paper and cut (and punch) your own 2. Purchase one of the aftermarket carbs and utilize the gaskets they supply 3. Carefully remove the old ones and use them. 4. Use a thick liquid gasket made for gasoline environment applications (last resort)