How to Adjust the Float on a Toro Engine

Ensure the Toro engine is off and has been given plenty of time to cool.

Find the carburetor halfway up the left side of the Toro's Briggs & Stratton engine. Place a dish under the carburetor bowl. This distinctive carburetor bowl has a nut on its bottom. Turn the nut counterclockwise with a socket wrench to loosen it and wait as excess liquid drains out of the bowl into the dish.

Remove the nut entirely with your wrench. Unscrew the carburetor bowl from the Toro's engine.

Locate the tang within the carburetor bowl. This tang controls the float level within the Toro's carburetor and is a small metal piece that will be either silver- or brass-colored, depending on your exact engine model. Gently, slightly bend the tang upward with your hands to raise the float level or downward to lower the float level.

Screw the Toro's carburetor bowl back into place and insert its nut with your socket wrench.