Recent content by jimigunne

Of course if i paid somebody to brush hog property thoroughly once, then if we could just use a regular riding mower once a week during growing season, then that would work. Because of gate widths we cant have over a 48 in cut mower. This means just 2 acres takes a lot of time to cut. I and my...

That probably 400.00. For 2 acres every 2 weeks during warm months. Maybe even more than that. Its not economically possible.

Then ill have to raise my budget to whatever it takes. 4000.00? 5000.00

Im on a country lot that continually gets covered with johnson grass 5 ft. high. I bought an old cub cadet riding mower once. It was abt 11hp. It was useless for high weeds, would bog down in them. It was only good for a lawn. So my question is whats the least expensive (like 2000.00 max) riding...

I took bowl off carb, made sure all water removed from icarb. Drained tank and fuel lines. Put fresh contaminated gas in. It still does not even let out a pop at all when cranked. Made sure gas was freely pouring out the fuel line when pulled off of carb.No matter how the intake butterfly plate...

I said i had drained the gas tank and refilled with fresh ethanol free gas. Yes, but i drained a little gas from the fuel tank and discovered its got a lot of water! Should i take the bowl off carb and soak in carb cleaner? What about the fuel pump? It looks like it does not come apart.

Ok i adjusted gap on magneto coil to credit card thickness. Still we could not get it to fire even once. Put a little starter fluid into intake side of carb, but still nothing. But i did get one strong pop when i put the fluid into the sparkplug hole. What is the positioning of the front...

Yea, i see that the cotrol arm on front butterfly has an unused hole. If a spring was installed there, it would open after being choked/ closed. As it is it doesnt reopen. I could find some spring easy enough but theres no fixed anchor point for the spring.

Another engine issue......the rabbit/turtle speed control hasnt worked for the last couple of years. It was just starting and running at the usual proper high speed for cutting, so we didnt worry about not having an idle setting. See the attached pic. The linkage doesnt make sense as it is! The...

About the magneto coil: i looked at manual but didnt find where its stated how to adjust the position for any model. So maybe spark is not optimal. Is there a specific gap required? In fact i dont know what engine models pertain to what i got since it speaks of 1500 , 2000 series or some such...

Drained out all old gas from tank and lines, its a new carb no.2 from amazon, theres no clog in the line. Filled tank with very fresh gas which is high dollar ethanol free.

Yea I think it was installed upside down. I flipped it over and no longer get kickback when pulled. Put some starting spray in spark hole again. And when pulled it made one single pop which went out the intake with puff of smoke. So thats a good sign. But after that it did not fire at all. And...

Maybe it is upside down. Will flip it around and see what happens.

Got crankshaft nut off no problem. The key appears like new, undamaged. See attached pics. What are other possible causes of kickback? Guess i should check valves next?

The crankshaft key is good! Like new still. Flywheel position is exactly right. So the other possibility is a valve problem?