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Governer???

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Troubled in the

12-13-2004 16:44:33




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My buddy has a MF33 gasser. He has had no trouble starting it when it was warm. Now that the cold weather has hit ( 0 Deg - -20 Deg. ) it doesn"t want to start. He had it running for a short period one day last week but when he tried to throttle up, it wouldn"t. After about 5 or 10 minutes of warming up, it finally came into it"s own. Since then he"s drained the gas out of the tank & re-filled with fresh gas, added methyl hyrate to new fuel, used up a can of carb cleaner, drained the fuel bowl of sediment & water, checked fuel lines etc, but now it won"t start at all. It"s getting fuel to the carb - I"ve seen that. I was wondering if a faulty governer could be the problem - not advancing or retarding the spark as needed. (No magneto - it"s got coil & distributor and it does have fire at the plugs) Any ideas?? Thanks, folks...

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MarkB_MI

12-14-2004 04:47:14




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 Re: Governer??? in reply to Troubled in the North, 12-13-2004 16:44:33  
I'm not familiar with Masseys, but assume they are just like any other gasoline tractor. Look at the throttle shaft on the carburetor. It should be sitting on the idle stop when the throttle control lever is closed. Now open the throttle lever to wide open throttle. The throttle shaft should now be turned to the full open position when the engine's not running. If it does these two things, the governor is not at fault.

Try giving it a snort of starting fluid. If it fires up, you have a fuel problem. If it doesn't, then you have either an ignition problem or possibly stuck valves.

Have you actually removed the plugs? At this temperature, you can get icing of the spark plugs and the tractor will never start. This can happen if you get the engine running for just a few seconds: long enough to form some water in the combustion chamber but not long enough to burn it out. Try taking out the plugs and heating them up with a propane torch. That will dry them out and hopefully keep them from icing long enough to get started.

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donol60

12-13-2004 19:02:44




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 Re: Governer??? in reply to Troubled in the North, 12-13-2004 16:44:33  
Take spark plugs out,if plugs are wet (gas} and you say you have fire to plugs,put in new plugs. I have had a dose of bad plugs {new plugs}lately.



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Troubled in the North

12-14-2004 04:14:10




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 Re: Governer??? in reply to donol60, 12-13-2004 19:02:44  
The plugs are dry - so it"s not flooding. I still need to know if it is plausible that the governer could be at fault....



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Coloken

12-14-2004 06:48:56




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 Re: Governer??? in reply to Troubled in the North, 12-14-2004 04:14:10  
FWIW: from your question, The governer does not advance or retard the spark.



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