[AT] Cub problem

[Bob Brooks]

Greg

Just a thought, make sure that the is no blockage in the air cleaner, 
the pipe that goes between the carb and the air cleaner or the carb itself.

I had a mouse build a nest in the aircleaner tube over the winter one 
year on Elmo, a similar vintage cub.

Bob



On 8/8/2013 10:15 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> In a nutshell, it won't start. I parked it about 3 weeks ago and
> everything was fine. A few days ago I went to move it to get to the
> brush hog and it wouldn't start. I checked the gas and it was empty.
> Started to pour some in and got wet feet, the rubber hose between the
> tank and inline filter had split. Fixed that and tried to start again
> and nothing. Had someone help tow it to the shop and tried to start it
> by towing, still nothing. Shot a little starting fluid in the air
> cleaner while cranking and nothing which tells me its electrical. This
> has magneto ignition (1949 model).  I cleaned out the distributor cap
> and took off the main coil cap which both looked ok ( IH mag). Today I
> took the mag off the tractor any filed the point and set to .013 as I
> found online. Put back on tractor, I 'm sure I did it right as it still
> won't start. The only problem I had was when I tried to put the rotor
> back on I had trouble getting the flat spot to line up with the shaft
> but I think it's right. My brother brought over some kind of tester you
> put between the wire and the plug. The light barely shows and it was
> even getting dark. I took one plug out (Champion D 15 Y) ; it was a
> little damp and the insulator was sort of brown but that wouldn't cause
> it to not start that suddenly. I have always swore if I had trouble I
> would try to find a battery ignition unit and replace the mag so I guess
> now I'm at that point. I think I might have an old mag from a cub power
> unit I could try, but as I get older I have less patience to try all
> this stuff. So, where do I go from here?
>
>            Greg Hass
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