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desertjoe 
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 Topic: Just when you "think" you're done,,,,,
Posted: 07 Mar 2023 at 10:07pm |
I had swore that I was NOT gonna take another project, no matter how small so I could get on Ole Red and then the frigging weeds started growing like,,,well like weeds,,,! Got my New (Last Year) Homelite weedeater out of garage and the SOB would not start,,so I dumped the fuel, mixed some new fuel and pulled on the friggin cord til almost passed out,!! Knowing I was NOT gonna mess with too much,,I ordered a new (china) carb kit with new spark plug, in tank fuel filter, new fuel lines, and even new fuel pump bulb,,, Put it all together when kit came in and the sob fired right up,,SO started to cut weeds and of a sudden the frigging IDLE went to the stratosphere and I could hardly hang on so I stopped iIt Checked it all out and fired it up and same very high idle,!! WTF?? Next morning I try and NOW the frigging engine will NOT start at all, din't even offer to fire!! Checked the spark plug with my spark plug tester and shows good spark and GOOD compression,SO the ignition coil must be OK too,,? I did notice thet the KILL switch had NOT killed the engine yesterday,,,so maybe it is shorting out the coil,,,? Sure hate to tear down the whole friggin thing to get to the friggin coil but,,,???
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 07 Mar 2023 at 10:13pm |
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mine has a little wire from the coil that runs up to a spud on the kill switch Right next to the carburetor........ i have knocked that off the switch before when working on the carb... might take the cover off and look ?
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desertjoe
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Posted: 08 Mar 2023 at 5:08am |
Yeah Steve,,I thought bout that when yesterday when it WAS running at high idle, the kill switch would NOT kill the engine,,,had to put engine on FULL choke to kill the engine!! Only'ist thing,,,I'm gonna have to remove all of the dang cowling to get to where the wire is located on the coil,,,,  Weird that all this Chit happened all at same time,,,,,?
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 08 Mar 2023 at 6:51am |
naw ,ain't weird...same chit happens on this side of the 49th.....
The coil is NOT shorted out.. the switch is suppose to GROUND ( short) it out...
so the wire from the magneto (coil) is NOT connected to the switch, or the switch is 'open'.
I'm looking at over a foot of 'white' from you know who... and it's just 12 days before Spring !! ??? Or is it Christmas, again ??!!!!
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Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor)
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desertjoe
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Posted: 08 Mar 2023 at 7:37am |
Hey Jay,,,all you guys up there are SO LUCKY cause that Shameless thinks SO highly of you,,,I KNOW it true cause I heard it from his own lips,,,,of coarse, he was laughing so hard he wasn't making much sense but every so often,,he would point up towards your country and laugh some more,,,,,there might be some down below the 49th that might be jealous of the attention he gives ya'll,,,BUT they'll never admit it,,,,, 
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 08 Mar 2023 at 10:00am |
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he been nice to ME this year..... 4 snows about 1 inch each !!!..... Send it NORTH to Chit-cago or SOUTH to St Louie..... but mostly MISSED the central area !! ....... seems to come from IOWA.. hit the Mississippi then Illinois rivers and BOUNCE right around us.
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Dave H
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Posted: 08 Mar 2023 at 11:40am |
 steve(ill) wrote:
he been nice to ME this year..... 4 snows about 1 inch each !!!..... Send it NORTH to Chit-cago or SOUTH to St Louie..... but mostly MISSED the central area !! ....... seems to come from IOWA.. hit the Mississippi then Illinois rivers and BOUNCE right around us. |
whatdoyathink there Steve.  I haven't even hooked the blade up to the tractor here by Springfield.
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desertjoe
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Posted: 08 Mar 2023 at 11:49am |
Well Steve,,,as usual you had the scope on that 30-06 dead on the money,,,one of the wires was "OFF" the terminal on the kill switch, but I noticed the clearance on coil to flywheel was very close to almost touching! I tried a feeler gauge and near as I can tell,,clearance was .006 and is suppossed to be .015 according to youtube,,,? Removed coil to clean behind it (grass) and tried to find how to "test" the coil itself but youtube didn't have a plan that sounded good,,,,?? Reason is with one test lead in the spark plug hole,,, and other on Coil ground I can make the meter reading jump all over the place by moving the test lead around in the spark plug hole,,,!!!!
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