Hi everyone,
I just signed up to the forum because I thought it would be helpful to diagnose my tractor and find new things about them in general. I would like to say that the tractor was purchased at least 5 years ago new and all that has been done (until yesterday) was an oil change once... There are 80 hours. That is probably not a good idea. Anyway, the issue is that the engine sounds like its going to cut off and then it kicks back in. When you first turn it on it runs fine for 20 minutes (about) and then started cutting and coming back (sputtering maybe?). It came to a point that every time you turned on the mower and the engine was on its low (getting ready to cut off) it would just shut off. So yesterday I got new oil, oil filter, fuel filter, and spark plug. I changed everything but the fuel filter because the tank was pretty loaded and I didn't want gas all over the place. It is still doing that again (didn't drive it to a point where it would shut off), but I have no idea what is going on. The guy at the JD store told me that it could be the fuel cap (which I also tried to clean) and I even took it off for a few minutes to see if it would help the sputtering. It didn't. Do you guys think that the fuel filter could be causing it? Or is there something else I should be looking at. Any help would be appreciated because I got my front yard cut (barely) today and hope to do the back this weekend. I do know that we neglected maintenance so please refrain from yelling at me:Stop: .
Thanks
Kumar
P.S I checked the air filter and cleaned it it too...
I just signed up to the forum because I thought it would be helpful to diagnose my tractor and find new things about them in general. I would like to say that the tractor was purchased at least 5 years ago new and all that has been done (until yesterday) was an oil change once... There are 80 hours. That is probably not a good idea. Anyway, the issue is that the engine sounds like its going to cut off and then it kicks back in. When you first turn it on it runs fine for 20 minutes (about) and then started cutting and coming back (sputtering maybe?). It came to a point that every time you turned on the mower and the engine was on its low (getting ready to cut off) it would just shut off. So yesterday I got new oil, oil filter, fuel filter, and spark plug. I changed everything but the fuel filter because the tank was pretty loaded and I didn't want gas all over the place. It is still doing that again (didn't drive it to a point where it would shut off), but I have no idea what is going on. The guy at the JD store told me that it could be the fuel cap (which I also tried to clean) and I even took it off for a few minutes to see if it would help the sputtering. It didn't. Do you guys think that the fuel filter could be causing it? Or is there something else I should be looking at. Any help would be appreciated because I got my front yard cut (barely) today and hope to do the back this weekend. I do know that we neglected maintenance so please refrain from yelling at me:Stop: .
Thanks
Kumar
P.S I checked the air filter and cleaned it it too...