I went out this morning to start again. Set the choke halfway and it fired right up, but sputtered. I had to open the choke all the way for it to run smooth. My first thought was that one of you guys had come by my place during the night and fixed the problem for me. Then I realized that the carb elves had probably done it while I slept. I drug my muddy driveway for around 45 minutes when it started to run bad. Set the choke down half way and it smoothed out. Dang carb elves! I pulled the carb and hung the top part from the manifold. Made sure I had good, steady flow from the gas line. Same with the screen filter in the carb. I hooked everything up to the top section of the carb and had a very weak flow from the float valve. I took the filter back out and removed the valve seat. Washed the passage out with some gas from a bottle. A flake of rust just big enough to cover the inlet of the valve seat came out. I mumbled things about the tractor not knowing who it was messing with as I reassembled the carb. A new tractor didn't need to be messing with me! Apparently, it did know who it was messing with, as it would only run with the choke half closed. I didn't check to see if the flow was better out of the float valve before I put it all back together. Guess I'll start there tomorrow.
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Today's Featured Article - Bad Vibes - by Curtis Von Fange. One of the strangest ways to communicate with our tractor is to ask it how it feels. "Ask it how it feels," you say? Yup, ask it how it feels. Now, as with the other articles in this series one has to be able to hear what 'ole blue' is trying to say in response. The nice thing about our old iron friends is that they are usually quite consistent in their response, rather unlike some people I know who might change what they say due to the weather or other mitigating circumstances. But since t
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