If you know some basic mechanics I'll assume you checked the oil, antifreeze and such. Three things to check, at least one is missing: compression, fuel, spark. I'm also assuming it's just been setting, nobody has been tinkering with timing or anything like that. A couple squirts of oil in each cylinder is a good idea too. Spark is easiest to check, pull one plug and hook the plug wire back to it, hold it next to the block and see if it sparks as the motor turns. Compression requires a tool, it screws into each spark plug hole, crank the motor with the throttle wide open until the gauge maxes out, each cylinder should be over 100 psi and all should be close to the same. If they are all low see above about oil in the cylinders. Fuel is hardest because you can't see it, and might not be able to smell it even. But if you take a can of brake cleaner or other highly flammable stuff, shoot about a 3-second spray into the carb intake, and the tractor then tries to fire, you have a fuel problem. BTW you didn't pull my favorite trick and forget to turn on the gas, did you?
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Today's Featured Article - What Oil Should I Use? - by Francis Robinson. I keep seein this question pop up over and over again in discussion groups all over the web. As with many things there are often several right answers and a few wrong ones. Some purist I'm sure will disagree to no end with what I will tell you but most of us out here in the real world don't really care do we ? Some of them only bring their noses down out of the air long enough to look down them anyway. If you are like me you are only doing this old tractor stuff because you enjoy it. You
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