[AT] Semi OT....Troy Bilt Junior Tiller issues

[Larry D Goss]

Your next to last sentence holds the answer -- It's a Tecumseh.  :-)

Seriously, I suspect that the mechanic hooked the governor and carburetor 
controls up backwards.  That's easy to do on many Tecumseh engines.  If you 
have access to a repair manual for Tecumseh, try to match up your engine 
with the dozen or more diagrams for all the variations of each model.

I ran into a similar problem with a drive-in customer yesterday.  His 
Troy-Bilt has a B&S enigine on it but there was no control except idle and 
wide open.  It turned out that the governor spring was unhooked -- left that 
way by the last mechanic.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Miller" <sweetcorn70 at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:35 PM
Subject: [AT] Semi OT....Troy Bilt Junior Tiller issues


> Hey guys and gals,
>
> Since someone was complaining about not having any list traffic I thought
> I'd post about this tiller I bought today.  It is a Troy Bilt Junior, and 
> it
> came with a furrower attachment that hasn't ever been used.   The 
> gentleman
> I bought it from had a price of $150 on it but said he'd take $75.   It 
> does
> have an issue.  The seller said he had a shop rebuild the carb with a kit
> and also put on a new head gasket last fall.   It now has an issue where 
> it
> will run fine--until you put it in gear and put it in the ground and then 
> it
> just acts like it has no guts and dies.   I bought it without running 
> it(yes
> probably a mistake) but here is what I found once I got it home.   It 
> starts
> with the choke all the way on, and then once it starts you can put the 
> choke
> in the next notch.   The choke has 4 settings it can be in, if full choke 
> is
> 4 then you can put it in 3 and it will still run.  However, in notch 3 it
> seems to run wide open, regardless of if the throttle is at idle or 1/2.
> Once you go so high, though, it dies.  It also runs faster than a normal
> idle in setting 4 no matter where the throttle is set.   Once you engage 
> the
> tines/wheels but don't put it in the ground, it runs but loses some speed.
> As I said before, once you put any kind of load on it, it loses RPMS and
> then just dies competely.   I'm not sure if this all started once he had 
> it
> fixed, or since then.   Anybody have an idea?    Sound like a governor
> problem or carb problem?    I am thinking it is something inside the carb
> since it was worked on but I have no clue.   It is a tecumseh engine.   I
> would appreciate anybodys thoughts or advice.
>
> Mike
>
>
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