[AT] winter projects?

[Mike Sloane]

I sure do wish that is the problem, but I have good gas flow when the 
problem occurs. And the problem occurs *every* time I use the tractor 
and always at almost the exact same amount of time.

I did have something like that when I first got the Super M - it would 
just plain stop, sometimes after a couple of minutes, sometimes after as 
long as an hour. I finally took a strong light and looked into the tank, 
and there it was: the metal cap on a gas can spout had fallen into the 
tank at some point and was floating around. It was the same color as the 
bottom of the tank and was hard to spot. I ended up getting it out with 
a strong magnet wired to a stick, carefully lowered down into the tank; 
nothing else I had would grab on to the little round cap.

Mike

On 11/24/2011 11:09 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Mike I'd bet on a fuel problem.  Have you cleaned the fuel tank recently or
> checked it for sediment?   I've known of cases where trash that will float
> gets slowly pulled down to the fitting where the fuel line joins the tank
> and eventually stops or slows fuel flow but then when the engine is cut off
> and fuel flow stopped the trash floats back up out of the way.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Sloane
> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 10:39 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] winter projects?
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> On 11/24/2011 9:51 AM, john hall wrote:
>> Mike, have you tried a new coil? Sounds like it my be failing when it is
>> hot.
> I wish it was as simple as the coil. I have a good spark when the engine
> quits, and, just to make sure, I have changed out the coil for a brand
> new one. I also have a Pertronix electronic module in place of the
> points/condenser (and I even swapped that out for another known working
> module). But thanks for the thought!
>
> Mike
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