Greg Cuetara
07-27-2010, 9:27 PM
I have a John Deere 111 lawn tractor. It is 1980's vintage. I bought it about 5 years ago and have had decent luck with it in the beginning. I have had electrical problems over the past few years and had to replace a number of parts. I have almost taken the whole thing apart and rebuilt it but who knows If I know what I am doing.
I have always had a really hard time starting her up but once she got going the engine came to life and was fairly strong. The coil does not back charge the battery so I have to charge the battery every time I want to use it and then typically I have to jump it to get it started. This spring I pulled it out of storage and everything had a nice coat of rust on it...so somehow I did not store it properly for the winter. Anywho, when I did get it going this spring the tractor has seemed to lose all of it's power. I thought it was a carb issue and I was able to buy another JD 111 which the engine had blown for fairly cheap. I needed some other parts so it worked out well to pick up the whole thing. I pulled the carb off the blown engine tractor and cleaned it up and put it on mine but I don't know what is going on right now.
It seems that the engine has very high rpm's but no power at all. Also whenever I go over a bump the engine almost dies so I have to stop and let the engine rpm's build back up before i keep going. Going downhill everything seems to be ok but when I turn around and come back up the hill I have to slow down and go like a snail in order to get up the hill with the pto on. I found a manual for the carb and I have tried to adjust it but I really have no clue what I am doing or what I should be looking at or for right now.
Is the idle adjustment typically on the carb? Do I just play with the jets to get that tuned up? I can post a few pictures of the carb if that is of any help.
Thanks for any advice anyone can give.
Greg
I have always had a really hard time starting her up but once she got going the engine came to life and was fairly strong. The coil does not back charge the battery so I have to charge the battery every time I want to use it and then typically I have to jump it to get it started. This spring I pulled it out of storage and everything had a nice coat of rust on it...so somehow I did not store it properly for the winter. Anywho, when I did get it going this spring the tractor has seemed to lose all of it's power. I thought it was a carb issue and I was able to buy another JD 111 which the engine had blown for fairly cheap. I needed some other parts so it worked out well to pick up the whole thing. I pulled the carb off the blown engine tractor and cleaned it up and put it on mine but I don't know what is going on right now.
It seems that the engine has very high rpm's but no power at all. Also whenever I go over a bump the engine almost dies so I have to stop and let the engine rpm's build back up before i keep going. Going downhill everything seems to be ok but when I turn around and come back up the hill I have to slow down and go like a snail in order to get up the hill with the pto on. I found a manual for the carb and I have tried to adjust it but I really have no clue what I am doing or what I should be looking at or for right now.
Is the idle adjustment typically on the carb? Do I just play with the jets to get that tuned up? I can post a few pictures of the carb if that is of any help.
Thanks for any advice anyone can give.
Greg