[Hawaii Marine]

Help! I just bought a new Cub Cadet 2400 and after eight hours it will not start all I get is a click, click, click,click, sound. This new machine did the same thing yesterday and we messed with the key and the brake and it finally kicked over. Today it is just clicking and stuck out on the job site! Needless to say this old Marine is not happy with my new expensive baby stuck out in the rain! I was wondering if anyone here had a suggestion on how to get it started so I can get it where it belongs?

 

[Hawaii Marine]

Michael & slkpk Thank you for the help. We were in the middle of a landscaping job moving our Hawaiian black volcanic cinders around so we have the bucket half full and had to do a shut down. We had a similar problem yesterday and it finally started after jiggling the brake and the key. It is starting to get dark now and I am an older guy so I think I will just let it sit and be at the dealers when they open up in the morning. slkpk I noticed your USMC I was with the 1st At. Bn. in country Vietnam 1966-1967 Semper Fi!

 

[Hawaii Marine]

Aloha Jnelson, I live on the Big Island at about 1,100 ft. elevation since I moved here to Mountain View in April the temperatures have been between 83 (high day)and 61(at night) the homes here have no heaters and my greenhouses have no heaters or fans the sides are screen to keep the pests out and the roofs are poly. The black volcanic cinder comes from the Kalapana area where fresh lava flows to the sea through vent tubes some eight miles long. I just flew here in March from Seattle and got a good deal on a small greenhouse complex and home.Thank you for the help with my new baby tractor I called the dealer first thing this morning and they just called back and said the mechanic is on the way.

 

[Hawaii Marine]

aloha jnelson, LOL! One of the main reasons I decided to buy a home here in Hawaii was to avoid scraping ice off my windshield too many months out of the year. I spent most of my life in the Pacific Northwest on the west side of the Cascade Mountains and here in Hawaii it is like summer every day but we get much more rain here in Mountain View than in Western Washington. The dealership sent two mechanics over to fix my little tractor and replaced some relays that were not working correctly and they called and will be bringing it back this morning. The nice thing about the Big Island is we have two International Airports one down the mountain in Hilo and one over the mountains in Kona on the dry side of this big beautiful island. When I first arrived here my local friends took me to the top of Mona Kea and you go from sea level in Hilo to 14,000 feet of elevation in a little over an hour and the view from the top is amazing but the air is real thin! During the winter months they do get snow on top of the two mountains here.