[AT] Troubleshooting no start

[Dean Vinson]

Thanks for the various suggestions, folks, I'll give them all a try.  I
haven't checked compression on it yet but will try to do so today.

The part that stumps me is what has changed, since the tractor always
started easily.  It's had various problems with rotten belts, old wiring,
and an improperly hooked up regulator, which I've slowly been working on,
but even then it would start right up.  Wouldn't charge and the lights
wouldn't work, but it would start.

I did switch it back to a 6V battery, instead of using the 8V battery that
had been in it when I bought it.  I've made sure all the cables and
connections are good and figured that since I had plenty of cranking power
the 6V battery would be fine.  But could that higher voltage have been
compensating for low spark or low compression somehow?

Dean Vinson
Dayton, Ohio
www.vinsonfarm.net



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You have flooded the engine it could be do to low compression or low spark
or bad plugs not firing enough. Try again in the morning to se if that
helps.  
You can take the plugs out blow air in the cylinders and the plugs and try
that.  But I would do a compression check to make sure.
Walt Davies
 
I assume now that you were pulling the choke out that could be the reason
for the overload of fuel in the carb.  

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