Posted by JRSutton on October 31, 2013 at 08:58:08 from (100.0.77.120):
In Reply to: JD B, what should I do? posted by Bryce Frazier on October 30, 2013 at 19:59:53:
I'm a big fan of keeping them intact, and not turning it into something it isn't.
Besides - does it have the compression reliefs? If not - hand starting's going to be tougher than you might expect, especially if the rings are good.
Consider how you use the tractor too. My biggest problem with hand start tractors is living in perpetual fear of stalling it at a stop light, etc.
we hay a lot of fields, and spend a lot of time on the roads between them
...Stall - lock the brakes, hop down, spin it a bunch of times, pray it starts, hop up, ulock the brakes... that all feels like an eternity when there's a line of angry drivers behind you.
Granted - it's not easy to stall a jd with a hand clutch - but if you're pulling a load and in road gear - it happens.
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