Posted by Tom Fleming on March 13, 2014 at 03:13:47 from (67.20.239.72):
In Reply to: losing fire on my cub posted by IbleedIHRed on March 12, 2014 at 17:13:33:
I agree with 504, this sounds more like a fuel problem. A Cub will run for at least a minute on the fuel in the bowl before it dies. I would absolutely make sure you don't have a fuel problem first.
If you have good, constant fuel flow to the carb, then you can start checking things in the ignition. If it truly is the ignition, there could be a short inside the distributor on the condenser wire amongst other things, however, start with the fuel, and we can go from there.
The reason I say it is fuel, is that for it to behave like that, I would expect that the tractor had been running for awhile and the coil heat up, then fail (failed windings), however, that usually happens after it has been running for awhile and heats up.
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