Hard starting Super M cont.

1 – Pull the air cleaner gooseneck off the carb inlet. With the choke open (rod pushed all the way in) and the throttle open ½, fire a 2 second or so shot of ether into the carb while the engine is cranking. If it fires right up, it’s a carburetion problem. If it does not start or if it spits out the carb or exhaust suspect the ignition.

2 – Pull off one plug wire, attach a fresh sparkplug to the end and lay the plug on the coil. Now crank the engine and watch the gap at the plug. You should see a juicy, blue spark every 2nd revolution. If you get a lazy yellow spark, intermittent spark or no spark at all your ignition system needs work.

BTW a properly tuned Super M is one of the best starting tractors every made. Mine can sit outside for months in sub-freezing temperatures, yet lights off every time after only 2 or 3 crankshaft revolutions.

Incidentally my Super H gradually became harder and harder to start this spring – especially once it was warmed up. Problem turned out to be worn/burned points - gap had become too small to even be measured. Installing new points and condenser cured the problem - though I did go back later and install new cap, rotor, wires and plugs.

The 0-ring is found on the drive end of the distributor and should not need to be changed unless you find oil getting into the point/weight chamber. You would have to remove dist. to change in any case. Part #238-5011