Thank you for the advice guys. I was going to try setting the carb today, but once I put my new sediment bowl gasket seal in and filled everything up and saw I had good flow at the carb (and no leaking), I fired up the tractor. It ran somewhat okay at idle, so I drove it around a bit, but it'd still starve off and such when first taking off in gear and it could barely pull itself up a hill. So I shut her down for lunch and came back out an hour later to tinker with her again. Mistake! I could barely get her to pop off again. It was weird, you'd pull the starter and let it spin for a bit, then let off... And as she spun down slower and slower, she'd occasionally catch and snap crackle pop for about 15-20 seconds then die. Nothing I could do would seem to overcome this. Then she wouldn't even crank over (vapor lock?), so I let her sit for another 30 minutes and finally got her to crank over and put her in the shed. Good grief, I'm scratching my head good on this one. Makes me feel like my carb float may be bad or I've got a serious air leak somewhere. Pulling out the choke when she'd start running rough just made it worse -- in fact I inadvertently killed the tractor a few times. By the end, I couldn't even run the old girl at idle, I'd always have to have the throttle cracked open for her to run. Oye. :(
I had the carb set at a basic starting point. Idle jet out 1 and 1/2 turns, and the main jet out 1 and 3/8 turns. I got a bit wild trying to set it later on, and had the main jet out another full turn and she seemed to hang on a bit longer but I still lost her.
fixerupper -- Yes indeed. I found quite a few places I expected cotter pins were just twisted pieces of baling wire.
Steve@Advance -- I only had one point when I was playing with it that it started to run rough and choppy and I opened the choke and it started to blow black smoke. Typically any other time I'd open the choke, the tractor would slowly starve itself and die.
This post was edited by Will Herring at 11:37:39 05/26/14 3 times.
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