Into Tractors wrote:I had hoped to get a picture of Joe driving it, but that would be a little hard to do as the steering wheel is off, and the dashpanel dangling from the steering column would make that a little hard, plus the clutch wouldn't release?
He did a great job of troubleshooting. Once I mentioned a few things to check in an earlier PM this week, and got his answer, he was able to find some more electrical problems and correct them.
As far as the clutch goes, I'm hoping that it is just seized up to to it been sitting for a long period of time, or needs some adjustments?
Got to tell you BD, the engine itself runs great now. Compression seems to be fine, no apparent leaks (other than the sediment bowl which Joe is going to fix by just replacing the entire assembly as it is in really bad shape) and I couldn't really see anything else wrong with the exception of the clutch not wanting to release.
Heck, it took 5 minutes to put it all back together, I've had lots of practice. I should have shut it off, put it in gear and restarted, you could have gotten your photo. I still need to figure out why the steering column won't let me bolt down the dashplate. Another mystery I'll look at while checking out the clutch problem.
I do need to run a real wire to the coil and get rid of the jumper, do they make a 3 way spade connector? I need something like that.
It does run well, I was delighted that the throttle cable I put on worked. I got a free screwdriver when I took it out of the governor linkage......it was a Craftsman even.