Its an early 8N motor, tranny and rear are 2N or 9N. Converted to 12v.It was running fine last fall. I didn't run it again until about the middle of DEC. I started it up to plow snow and it had no power whatsoever. It could still move (barely) at that time and I nursed it off the driveway and parked it. I started messing with it again about a week ago. It will start,idle and run the PTO but if I let the clutch out with the tranny in gear it will kill the motor. A guy at work said it sounded like points. I figured that was a good guess, Ive owned the tractor three and a half years and had never looked at them. It turned out the P.O. had made a mess of the dist during his version of a 12v conversion (I posted about this a week or so ago) one thing led to another and I ended up installing a Pertronix kit and a new dist shaft bushing today. I reused my old can coil and plug wires (which are ancient) because I didn't want to change too many things at once in case there was trouble after the Ignitor install. I have new wires and a new can coil that came with the kit sitting here ready to go on. After I got the ignitor installed today there was absolutely no change at all. It starts right up and idles, when I let the clutch out with it in gear it dies.
Fuel is filling the glass bowl when I open the valve so I guess it's flowing ok. Two years ago I rebuilt the carb, installed a new fuel valve and had the tank cleaned and sealed. Could it be a carb adjustment?
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