agdodge4x4
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So, I fired up the TO35 that I have been working on forever. It fired up without a lot of fuss. Several issues though.
1.) Smoke. LOTS of smoke. COPIOUS amounts if smoke. Blue smoke. Presume this is oil. However, when the tractor was purchased years ago before sitting, it only smoked at startup and then cleared. It ran for 30 mins and never cleared. It does not smoke at idle.
2.) The small needle on the carburetor is adjusted for idle. It idles OK and is adjusted. The BIG screw on the bowl seems to have no effect whatsoever. I don't know what it does or how to adjust it. The carburetor is completely and totally clean...I personally cleaned it, every orifice, ultrasonic...the whole nine yards, so I know it's unrelated to that.
3.) The throttle lever is CRAZY touchy. You can go from idle to screaming full throttle and it will 'hunt'.
4.) It has a prominent miss...just a random miss. I may need to adjust the distributor, but until I can get the throttle to 'mid RPM' without being in one extreme or the other, I'm afraid to.
A lot of these issues are probably inter related, but I don't know how.
1.) Smoke. LOTS of smoke. COPIOUS amounts if smoke. Blue smoke. Presume this is oil. However, when the tractor was purchased years ago before sitting, it only smoked at startup and then cleared. It ran for 30 mins and never cleared. It does not smoke at idle.
2.) The small needle on the carburetor is adjusted for idle. It idles OK and is adjusted. The BIG screw on the bowl seems to have no effect whatsoever. I don't know what it does or how to adjust it. The carburetor is completely and totally clean...I personally cleaned it, every orifice, ultrasonic...the whole nine yards, so I know it's unrelated to that.
3.) The throttle lever is CRAZY touchy. You can go from idle to screaming full throttle and it will 'hunt'.
4.) It has a prominent miss...just a random miss. I may need to adjust the distributor, but until I can get the throttle to 'mid RPM' without being in one extreme or the other, I'm afraid to.
A lot of these issues are probably inter related, but I don't know how.