ldabe
Gold Member
Saturday Evening was forecasting a heavy amount of snow, so I went to make sure my tractor (422) and truck were full of fluids, and tried to start them up.
The truck had a dead battery. Jumped it and it started up.
Put the Snow Bear snow blade on...ready to plow 1600 feet of drive.
The 422 cranked and cranked until the battery began to die down. Jumped it, still cranked and cranked but no start.
Used 'starting fluid' and cranked the crap out of it some more! After doing this (outside temp was around 37 degrees, 422 kept in a 3 sided and roofed pole barn, no door) for quite sometime, numerous times, it finally started. Man! Is this thing a cold starter or what? Anyone else have this problem when the temps dropped down below 50 degrees?
After letting it run for about 15 min. I did some lifting and moving with it for about 10 min., then let it run for another 15 min. while I jockeyed things around in my attached garage (not heated, but insulated same as the house) to put the 422 into.
Now for the "gas tank".
The gas tank did not have a shut off valve on it, and I remember reading in either the Robin manual or the Power Trac manual that it should have one. So I put one on before the beginning of summer.
I have had the 422 in my garage before, when I didn't have the gas shut off valve, and there was a very strong odor of gas, very strong.
After putting the shut off valve on, and turning it off after the engine shut down, there is still a very noticeable odor of gas, but not nearly as bad as without the shut off valve.
Question? Does anyone else get this very noticeable smell of gas?
Is this smell just from what is left in the carb?
Can it be corrected?
The truck had a dead battery. Jumped it and it started up.
Put the Snow Bear snow blade on...ready to plow 1600 feet of drive.
The 422 cranked and cranked until the battery began to die down. Jumped it, still cranked and cranked but no start.
Used 'starting fluid' and cranked the crap out of it some more! After doing this (outside temp was around 37 degrees, 422 kept in a 3 sided and roofed pole barn, no door) for quite sometime, numerous times, it finally started. Man! Is this thing a cold starter or what? Anyone else have this problem when the temps dropped down below 50 degrees?
After letting it run for about 15 min. I did some lifting and moving with it for about 10 min., then let it run for another 15 min. while I jockeyed things around in my attached garage (not heated, but insulated same as the house) to put the 422 into.
Now for the "gas tank".
The gas tank did not have a shut off valve on it, and I remember reading in either the Robin manual or the Power Trac manual that it should have one. So I put one on before the beginning of summer.
I have had the 422 in my garage before, when I didn't have the gas shut off valve, and there was a very strong odor of gas, very strong.
After putting the shut off valve on, and turning it off after the engine shut down, there is still a very noticeable odor of gas, but not nearly as bad as without the shut off valve.
Question? Does anyone else get this very noticeable smell of gas?
Is this smell just from what is left in the carb?
Can it be corrected?