Having just posted this in what would be the main JD forum I now see the Lawn & Garden so this will be a repost, in the correct area.
I have a 1984 model 318 tractor that I recently purchased. It was a private sale but located on the local Massey dealers lot. It needed a new carb gasket which was MIA and a replacement throttle cable which the Massey dealer replaced with JD parts. We used to have a JD dealership located on the next door property but in the last 25 years we only have ten in the province of Saskatchewan held now by two publicly traded companies, and the nearest is 75 miles away.
The Massey dealer is best known for not hiring licensed mechanics - just "Hobos who like to tinker", and it shows. Anything under half throttle on the dash and it stalls. According to my digital tach I'm only getting 2500 RPM instead of the required 3450. When I first got it here the carb was so rich you're eyes would water from twenty feet away [plus he bitched and moaned to no end of how hard it was to strip off the side panels and replace them]. I do have the PDF manual for it and got the carb dialed in but the directions for setting the RPM are a bit thin. Setting the cable against the Stop has been done but knowing the Tinkers Jimmy hires, I'm lucky the carb wasn't installed backwards.
So my question is, exactly how is the throttle and governor to be set so I reach the correct RPM to run the snowblower and mower deck and not have it stall out when the lever is pulled back? The unit has 1025 hours on it, it runs smooth but as is the blower throws the snow MAYBE five feet.
Thank you
[former farm boy, now in wheelchair, former owner of a 312, 420 and LX178]
I have a 1984 model 318 tractor that I recently purchased. It was a private sale but located on the local Massey dealers lot. It needed a new carb gasket which was MIA and a replacement throttle cable which the Massey dealer replaced with JD parts. We used to have a JD dealership located on the next door property but in the last 25 years we only have ten in the province of Saskatchewan held now by two publicly traded companies, and the nearest is 75 miles away.
The Massey dealer is best known for not hiring licensed mechanics - just "Hobos who like to tinker", and it shows. Anything under half throttle on the dash and it stalls. According to my digital tach I'm only getting 2500 RPM instead of the required 3450. When I first got it here the carb was so rich you're eyes would water from twenty feet away [plus he bitched and moaned to no end of how hard it was to strip off the side panels and replace them]. I do have the PDF manual for it and got the carb dialed in but the directions for setting the RPM are a bit thin. Setting the cable against the Stop has been done but knowing the Tinkers Jimmy hires, I'm lucky the carb wasn't installed backwards.
So my question is, exactly how is the throttle and governor to be set so I reach the correct RPM to run the snowblower and mower deck and not have it stall out when the lever is pulled back? The unit has 1025 hours on it, it runs smooth but as is the blower throws the snow MAYBE five feet.
Thank you
[former farm boy, now in wheelchair, former owner of a 312, 420 and LX178]
