lil_Blue_Ford
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- City
- Butler
- State - Country
- PA - USA
- Vehicle Year
- 2000
- Vehicle
- Ford Ranger
- Engine
- 5.0
- Transmission
- Automatic
- Total Drop
- 4”
Well, I put some gear in the lawn cart and got my lawn tractor started (the big green GT) after airing up the tires. Took a snort of starting fluid to get it started the first time, not sure why. Once it was running it was fine though other than a couple hiccups and a small backfire when I throttle down.
Put the new coil on, hooked up the new wiring and the key switch I got on the TO-20. Still gonna have to make a couple wiring adjustments at some point but I was just trying to see if it improved starting/running. I need to take some more gas down there, but it fires and runs hard on starting fluid. Either there’s not enough gas in it right now or the carb isn’t doing carb things despite being new.
Got most of the yard cleared of sticks, mostly just a couple places where the tractor doesn’t really fit yet where I left them (I was getting tired of picking up bundles of sticks and moving them to a bonfire pile or the burn barrel). Few things need trimmed, but I wasn’t trying to get into that today. Buzzed around on the tractor and knocked the weeds down. Was going to do a little push mowing but somehow there’s no gas in the mower. Guess I’ll have to haul gas over for the push mower too now.
Put the new coil on, hooked up the new wiring and the key switch I got on the TO-20. Still gonna have to make a couple wiring adjustments at some point but I was just trying to see if it improved starting/running. I need to take some more gas down there, but it fires and runs hard on starting fluid. Either there’s not enough gas in it right now or the carb isn’t doing carb things despite being new.
Got most of the yard cleared of sticks, mostly just a couple places where the tractor doesn’t really fit yet where I left them (I was getting tired of picking up bundles of sticks and moving them to a bonfire pile or the burn barrel). Few things need trimmed, but I wasn’t trying to get into that today. Buzzed around on the tractor and knocked the weeds down. Was going to do a little push mowing but somehow there’s no gas in the mower. Guess I’ll have to haul gas over for the push mower too now.
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