Super C Just Quit!

I was out plowing snow with my Super C this afternoon. I stopped the tractor, left it running, and moved a vehicle in the driveway. Climbed back on the Super C and as I started to push more snow it started losing power and finally quit. I checked fuel -cleaned the sediment bowl(was clean), have good flow to the carb, I pulled the drain to the float bowl and drained it, also seemed clean with no sign of water. Sprayed some carb cleaner in the needle valve opening. I also put a new 12volt battery in the tractor as the old one all of a sudden decided to not turn over the tractor -dead.
The tractor will start and run for a very short time and never get up to normal running rpms before it dies. I haven't pulled the sparkplugs yet but I was wondering what happens if the a spring or something lets go in the governor?
If I try choking the engine when starting it, the engine wouldn't even fire but push in the choke and it would start and run very weak. No sign of black smoke (flooding)when it starts. Right now it will fire and only continue to fire about a half dozen times then quit. This is normally a very strong running tractor.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Loren

It's not the governor. In warm weather I would suspect the coil or condensor. But if it starts immediately after dying, that is not it. I suspect your fuel line, etc is freezing enough to make it act that way.

Do you have a ballast resistor between the ignition switch and coil? Could be defective. If you don't have this I would replace the condenser to see it that fixes it. Hal

Use a hair dryer on the card and make sure its nice and warm than start your tractor,Ill bet there some ice somewhere

jimmy

Yes, it does have a ballast resistor. I'll do some checking with a meter tomorrow. If I can't find anything, I'll try a hair dryer on the carb. I've seen water in the gas in the sediment bowl of another tractor but no signs in this one.
Tried it again after things cooled off and now it won't even fire, choking or not. Hope the snow holds off till I can find the trouble. Fuel out of the tank and to the carb flows well. I'm thinking it's the condenser. Anything else that I should check?
Thanks,

Use a volt meter set on DC volts and see if there's voltage on both small terminals on your coil. The points need to be open and your ignition switch on. Make sure your rotor is turning. Hal

Could there be a chance that a fuse or wiring may have gone bad behind the ignition switch? I haven't done any checking yet but I do recall smelling a hot wires type smell when I climbed onto the tractor. The starter has also earlier that day began to give me some trouble -the bendix seems to be sticking a little and sometimes it causes the starter to grind on the ring gears or sound like it's bouncing in and out of the ring gear. I need to lub that somehow also.
Thanks again,

Coil was good as was also the condenser, Found the problem to be the rotor not turning all the time and the gears are worn on the dist shaft end and the drive shaft end.
Now I need to find parts.

Thanks for your help!
Loren