[AT] Exponential growth frustration

[STEVE ALLEN]

Ya know, Dean, at this point in my life, I not only allow for the possibility that my memory plays me false, I live in the expectation that it will ;-)

So I took a good look at the '51 and then dug into the shed to look at the '48.  Sure enough, they *are* the same.  I just have not actually looked at the operation in so long that I was mis-interpreting what I was seeing.  I am glad you spoke up!  I'd a' looked mighty stupid trying to start the '51 using the throttle backward :-/

In very minor mitigation, I will note that the '51 is missing the post and spring that the throttle lever engages as it approaches the stop, so something *is* different, but I can see where the post broke off, so the modification was not factory but oops-ory.  I suppose that its absence will not fundamentally mess up the operation.

The plugs and wires are new--or near enough as no matter--so I guess they will work.  I'm more concerned about some brush or stalks knocking the connection apart than I am getting zapped.  But any change there is so far down on the list I suspect it will be my grandson--assuming either of my boys ever have kids--that will get a round tuit.

I couldn't delay the inevitable first grass cutting today, so no time to work on the tractor.  and all the brush I need to hog is turning green . . . .  GRRRRR!

The "original" Steve Allen

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Steve,

I sure don't recall JD reversing the operation of the throttle lever. Are
you sure you don't have a temporary fix involved?  Then old fork type plug
wired ends will work just fine if they are clean to begin with. But you can
get covers to go over them. 

Dean VP
Apache Junction, AZ