Briggs & Stratton 31p777 Broken Screw Holes
I bought my first ever riding lawn mower off Craigslist earlier this month. I paid $500 for it and, to be completely fair, it was working when I checked it out in person.
Loaded it up on a trailer, drove it home, and then the issues became apparent... Blown head gasket, valves out of adjustment, oil getting pulled through the breather tube and into the carburetor and into the fuel lines and finally leaking out of the fuel pump, and now...? Broken automatic pressure release on the camshaft.
Most of it has been fixed. A new camshaft kit is arriving tomorrow and I'm retrofitting a standalone choke cable to separate the choke from the throttle. Which is so stupid...
Anyways. Amidst my repeated engine disassemblies, two of the screw holes for the plastic engine cover (along with the air intake filter) snapped. Is this a major concern? How would I even go about trying to fix it?