[AJD] Starting Trouble 51-B

[John]

  You already are doing the very FIRST thing I would try, thats NEW PLUGS 
especially if old ones apperared blackened or oily. Is it a Magneto or 
battery powered coil distributor ignition?? Regardless, the NEXT THING Id do 
is check the points and their gap. If good but only grey oxide coated, I'd 
non abrasively clean/buff/polish them n try her but if thay are badly burned 
or pitted or carboned up I'd replace them. It can help reduce premature plug 
fouling if you use shutters etc to get n keep the engine temp up to 180 and 
over,,,,,,,Dont run the carb richer then necessary,,,,,,,Try a hotter plug. 
If its the 18mm plug try a non resistor Autolite 3116 or a 388 (hotter then 
the specified 386 but still a resistor plug I believe) or maybe a Denso L 
14U 5000....If its the older (like many Unstyled used) 7/8 plug try a hotter 
deep reach side wire electrode plug like an Autolite 3077.

  John T Nordhoff in Indiana

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Sawyer" <mustangpaul at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:50 AM
Subject: [AJD] Starting Trouble 51-B


> Hi all--
>
> Got my tractor the other day.  It started up, chugged off the trailer and
> happily all over the yard.  Stopped and started it several times with no
> trouble.  I put it up and now she won't start.  Catches
> occasionally-CHUG-but that's it.  Eventually, she blows a bit of white 
> smoke
> which tells me, I think, she's flooded out.
>
> I recharged the battery.  (It was converted to 12 volt and the battery is
> about a year old--Interstate.)
> I'm heading out now to get new plugs.  The old ones are pretty oily/black.
> I've got lights so I'm getting power.
> Fuel switch is on and I have good, new gas.
> Throttle is between 1/3 and 1/2.
> Choke or no choke doesn't seem to make a difference.
>
> The tractor was restored about 8 years ago, but sat most of the time since
> then.  Always started--it's just me she's being difficult to.
>
> I'm told that there is no dumb question--only dumb people who ask them, so 
> I
> declare myself dumb!
>
> Any ideas?  I've got a line of neighborhood kids who want rides!  8)
>
> --P
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