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You are right. back 17 years it was all I could afford. Now I can afford a Kubota
It does have a front mount blower. backhoe. Heated and A/c cab and I have a new chipper for it. I sold the china chipper last year and bought a newer better unit :bye:I have been working on this not to fast. I did get time to get to the bottom of it and though I better finish this link. What I found was I was getting a voltage drop at the starter. It turned out that the battery post on the neg. side where the wire is clamped was not a good tight fit. It was tight but was to large to completely compress the wire. I replaced it and all is good now.
For info when you are cranking the starter you should have 11.5 volts at the starter.
Thanks for the help and ideas :yahoo:I did check every tooth. I turned the engine over by hand and grinded every tooth. They were not bad. After I installed the starter it worked no better
Update. I used a small air grinder and cleaned all the teeth on the ring gear. The tractor is 14 years old and the burs on the gear were not bad at all. I don't believe the ring gear is the problem. I am sure it is the starter. The starter works good on the bench. When I turn the key if it don't catch I let off and then try again. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 try's. If I hold the key on it will spin for awhile and then catch
