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My buddy gave me an M18S from an old 1806 and with Roland’s help with the wiring diagram and many hours of plugging away at it, I finally took it for a few laps around the yard yesterday.
I had also took one of the heads off just to see what it looked like and it needs a good cleaning…soon as the carbon is built up pretty good. After doing some checking, I am going to try some Permatex gasket remover instead of doing the “water injection” method. Will post before and after pics when I do this. Did this on another cub I had many years ago and it made a huge difference in how well it ran.
Some things that I found were the fuel pump was bad so that slowed me down. I had originally took the carburetor off to clean out all of the gunk that may have been sitting in there for a couple of years and when the tractor would not run, I immediately thought that it was something that I had done to the carb so I took it off and checked and rechecked everything………2 times!!! Then I thought that I should take the pump off and at least look at it and when I took the 4 little screws out…..one of the little diaphragms fell out and I could see wear marks where it had been getting beat around in there. So I found another whole motor on Craigie’s list so I went and picked it up and took the fuel pump out of it and THAT WAS IT!!..Started right up and ran just fine.
I still have issues with the ammeter that I will work out this week. I did check the regulator and it is fine. The stator measures just fine. Output at the battery when it is at high idle is about 12.8 volts…I am suspecting that I could have a magnet issue that was referred to earlier…..but I really hope not. I have a hard time picking up that heavy motor and setting it back down in there…IT IS HEAVY…as there is never anyone around when you are doing this stuff.