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My CK25 HST is dead in the middle of the pasture and I can't do any work on it tonight so I thought I'd post the strange symptoms in hopes that someone would have seen something similar and save me some trouble shooting time tomorrow.
I was pulling some shrubs with a log chain and when I pulled the throttle lever down idle to get off and unhook the chain the engine just kept going down and stopped instead of stopping at idle. I tried to restart and it wouldn't. I turned the ignition off to think about it while I unhooked the chain. When I got back on it restarted normally. Since I had only one more shrub to pull I kept going instead of doing the smart thing and coming to where the tools are. On the last shrub it stopped again the same way and only after turning the ignition switch full off did it restart. I did one last pull of the throttle to idle at the brush pile before going in for the day, and it died again, but this time it would not restart even after turning the ignition off.
So, any ideas? Two things seem strange to me. First that it didn't stop until I pulled the throttle lever down, and second that it wouldn't restart until I turned the ignition full off. Seems like there are clues there but they aren't doing anything for my brain right now.
I was pulling some shrubs with a log chain and when I pulled the throttle lever down idle to get off and unhook the chain the engine just kept going down and stopped instead of stopping at idle. I tried to restart and it wouldn't. I turned the ignition off to think about it while I unhooked the chain. When I got back on it restarted normally. Since I had only one more shrub to pull I kept going instead of doing the smart thing and coming to where the tools are. On the last shrub it stopped again the same way and only after turning the ignition switch full off did it restart. I did one last pull of the throttle to idle at the brush pile before going in for the day, and it died again, but this time it would not restart even after turning the ignition off.
So, any ideas? Two things seem strange to me. First that it didn't stop until I pulled the throttle lever down, and second that it wouldn't restart until I turned the ignition full off. Seems like there are clues there but they aren't doing anything for my brain right now.