kevinthefixer
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I bought this machine barely running early Spring '17, just been slowly fixing it up. It's about to the point where it's a useful tool rather than a hole to throw time & money into. So this spring I started losing my vision, and it got parked for a month and a half with no preparation besides my usual habit of running the carb dry on shutdown. Well, I have a brand new $3000 plastic disk in my right eye now, and I'm getting back on my feet, so I decided it's time to get the old girl running. Checked all the fluids, only needed fuel (was very low when parked). Aired up the tires. Climbed on, turned the key and it fired right off like it had been run yesterday. Moved a few buckets of dirt, scraped some sand/gravel off the road (it's our rainy season), I swear I've driven brand new tractors that weren't this smooth, it never hit 200 degrees, didn't leak a drop of anything. I think I'm a happy camper.