Got the WD45 running (with the choke in!)

I drove it around the yard some with the choke all the way in and it's very low on power, so I have more adjustments to make. But I feel like I'm in the homestretch now.

It has a serious surge at idle, which I'm sure is just an adjustment. I might check to see if the points are clean and adjusted properly. Everything looks good in the distributor cap.

It was in the 60's yesterday but only in the 30's today (southern Indiana - yee ha) so I'm not inclined to go out to mess with it today, plus we had a foal born two nights ago (12:30 am of course) and I haven't caught up on my sleep yet.

The surge at idle is probably the idle adjusting screw so I'll mess with that and let you all know how it does.

Now I'm actually thinking about getting a grader blade and thinking of some of the things I can do with the tractor once I get it running right (I used it for bush hogging before it started running poorly). Thanks very much for all your help!

Any suggestions on the surge would be appreciated.

vic

Dave

Thanks very much for the info and the pic. I'm going to set the valves tomorrow (gulp) to see how that goes. If I'm in over my head I'll just carefully put it back together and come here for advice. I've done valves before on diesel engines so I can probably do this.

I'm looking forward to the pic so I can get the surge out, and I should be ready to bush hog as soon as the grass grows.

Thanks very much.

vic

Dave

I haven't looked at the throttle shaft lever (it's new and shiny so I can see it now) to see if it's moving during the surge but if it is I can probably figure out how to hook the spring to it.

Does anyone know what is actually *causing* the surge? I'd like to fix that vs. just holding the throttle shaft still.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

vic