dgeesaman
Silver Member
A couple months ago, when the weather turned cooler, I noticed that my TC45DA (840 hrs) idle would dip and catch itself when I started the engine. The idle would dip like that until the engine was fully warmed up. After a good warmup, the idle was solid at 1000 when the throttle was backed down.
Today I did some plowing. It's been our coldest day of the year, around 15F. Not heavy load, and I was using low gear. The engine stalled several times and most times it would not immediately restart. When it was giving me trouble it seemed to help when I'd keep the throttle set to give around 2000 or 2200. But then it was fine for a while and stalled one more time before I was done. I also noticed that the throttle control was not rock solid - if I set throttle at 2000 the engine speed would drift down toward 1800 after a bit.
So, any takers? Is the stalling likely to be the same problem as the weak throttle and idle control?
Thanks,
David
Today I did some plowing. It's been our coldest day of the year, around 15F. Not heavy load, and I was using low gear. The engine stalled several times and most times it would not immediately restart. When it was giving me trouble it seemed to help when I'd keep the throttle set to give around 2000 or 2200. But then it was fine for a while and stalled one more time before I was done. I also noticed that the throttle control was not rock solid - if I set throttle at 2000 the engine speed would drift down toward 1800 after a bit.
So, any takers? Is the stalling likely to be the same problem as the weak throttle and idle control?
Thanks,
David