Posted by redtom on September 09, 2011 at 17:46:22 from (97.84.162.42):
This is the second time this happened. As with others here I have a barn full of old tractors. Got out a Super C thats been in for a year or two. I always turn off the gas and run em til they die when I put them away. Fired her up and Wiiide open she went! Fiddled around and pulled carb, butterfly apparently had a tiny bit of corrosion in the bore which stuck it shut and when cranking, the governor yanked it open. Broke both screws in the shaft and butterfly went up into intake, thus wide open. Same thing happened to an Allis CA about five years ago. Took carb apart on the super C and potmetal bowl was nearly full of powdered corrosion! Looked like granular fertilizer. I think its from the alcohol. Blew butterfly out through plug hole and fixed carb. I put a drain cock in the 1/8" plug hole in the bowl so I can drain bowl too.
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