Dune Country
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I have a new neighbor that has been having trouble starting his IIRC 1956 Int. 500 tractor.
Carb was rebuilt by a friend last spring and has been fine.
He is an older gentleman with a touch of deminta (sp). 1st time he asked for help it just would not start, checked spark it was fine. Gas was coming out of the bottom of the carb, finally I put my hand over the throat of the carb (hard choke) and it sputtered and fired up, ran fine.
Yesterday I saw him at the hardware store getting a new key made for it because it would not start???
Stopped by there today and it still would not start, not even turn over. He had also put on a new solenoid, it is now negative ground, I asked him when that was changed, he said when he was 10 or so, he's had that tractor all his life.
Anyway I took the starter out and bench tested it and it motored strong. put the starter back on and it turned over but would not fire until I hard chocked it again.
My thought is bad gas, plugs looked fine but?? or a plugged passage in the carb.
What say you?
AE
Carb was rebuilt by a friend last spring and has been fine.
He is an older gentleman with a touch of deminta (sp). 1st time he asked for help it just would not start, checked spark it was fine. Gas was coming out of the bottom of the carb, finally I put my hand over the throat of the carb (hard choke) and it sputtered and fired up, ran fine.
Yesterday I saw him at the hardware store getting a new key made for it because it would not start???
Stopped by there today and it still would not start, not even turn over. He had also put on a new solenoid, it is now negative ground, I asked him when that was changed, he said when he was 10 or so, he's had that tractor all his life.
Anyway I took the starter out and bench tested it and it motored strong. put the starter back on and it turned over but would not fire until I hard chocked it again.
My thought is bad gas, plugs looked fine but?? or a plugged passage in the carb.
What say you?
AE
