Finally got to mow.

zinniman1

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Posted a month ago trying to get my M to run right. Would die 2 hours after getting hot mowing 5 Ft mower. Replaced everything, probably needed them replaced anyway. Found Shop rag in gas tank, cleaned and
had carb rebuilt. Ran like cropa. Had the man come to work on it, and filed the points. I didn't know about a coating. Idled and run fast in the shed for 20 min while we shot the poop. He left, put it in
gear, ran like cropa again. Mowed for 30 minutes and then stopped totally. Replaced the coil (non resister) Went back today (2 hours each way), stopping to buy 2 new Points condenser and rotor. This was the
3rd condenser just in case. Got to tractor, no spark. No sparking in points, plenty when using screwdriver. Replaced the points and started right up. I'm thinking coil for the hot problem, croppya points
that I replaced once, Crap in gas tank maybe. But I finally had 2 hour tractor time with out anything messing up. Now I can worry about something else. My garden tractor carp that the float is hanging up.
Joy.
 
It's sounds like you have lots of possible causes at once. That would make me crazy. Would it be wrong to tell you that I have an M that gets about 100 hours a year and I haven't even popped the distributor cap since I have owned it (6 years). Sometimes you're the boot, sometimes you are the steaming pile.
 
Man, no luck at all. Out of curiosity... how much play do you have in your distributor shaft? Have you put a timing light on it?
 
Distributor rotates 5 degrees (est) when turned manually. Changed the oil and that's when it started. Found the shop rag. checked fuel line, had carb rebuilt. changed points, condenser, dist cap and wires covered w/ oil and dirt from blowby after ten years. Now everything is beautiful. Peace at last for the next ten minutes. LOL.
 
Shop rag in gas tank! That's a real one. Hopefully you got the tank cleaned well. There may be lots of shop rag fibers floating around in the tank so at some point you may have a cluster of fibers which plug the fuel outlet at the bottom of the tank. Aggravating problem as they can make a ring, plug off the gas, then float away while you're messing with it to get it to start again. I had that happen on a C and it came close to beating me, run five minutes to an hour then die under load. would never die idling.
 

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