Bought a Cub Cadet garden tractor with a known problem that prior owner could not figure out. It would run OK sitting still but would miss and back fire when moving. Fooled with it a while but had not figured anything out. Choke cable was froze up when I bought it but I reached up and choked it at the carburetor. Got tired of that so I put a new cable on it. Second time I went to start it the new cable was stuck, dang &*%China junk!. Bought another new cable and installed it and second time I went to start it that cable was stuck too. Gave up on choke cables but continued to fool with the tractor now and then. One evening I had it in the driveway running and it was missing sitting still, Wife comes out (who knows ding about mechanics) and yells why is it sparking down there?? Down where I asked? She points, right there! Where the choke cable passed through a hole it was sparking. I held it against the hole and tractor quit missing, then moved it away so it wasnt touching and tractor died. Choke cable sheath had become the ground due to bad ground between engine and frame. It was fixed with extra ground wire. Question still remains why did the starter work OK with limited grounding but not ignition system??
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