The tractor is a Jacobsen painted blue with Ford decals. It's a good outfit.
A Kohler K241 at ten horsepower should have plenty of torque for a 42 inch deck. That engine should have a Carter/Kohler carburetor that has a #26 molded in the air filter side of the venture. When you throttle up from idle there should be a puff of black smoke. That tells you your setting is rich enough.
You could try a digital tachometer and make sure that engine is turning at 3600 rpm. That is where you have the full ten hp.
Make sure you can see daylight through the air filter. Those filters can look clean on the outside but still be plugged with dust.
Having the engine slow down when you engage the deck is a bad sign. Make sure all your pulleys are free, the deck spindles are free, and the belt or belts are lined up properly. Some decks are set up so the belt looks like it's lined up right but it drags on something when you are mowing. Don't ask how I know that.
Is the deck leveled properly? Are the blades sharp? Are the blades turning the right direction? Blade tips should go in the direction of the deck outlet/grass chute so they throw grass out the chute. Learned it all the hard way.
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Today's Featured Article - Oil Bath Air Filters - by Chris Pratt. Some of us grew up thinking that an air filter was a paper thing that allowed air to pass while trapping dirt particles of a particles of a certain size. What a surprise to open up your first old tractor's air filter case and find a can that appears to be filled with the scrap metal swept from around a machine shop metal lathe. To top that off, you have a cup with oil in it ("why would you want to lubricate your carburetor?"). On closer examination (and some reading in a AC D-14 service manual), I found out that this is a pretty ingenious method of cleaning the air in the tractor's intake tract.
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