[young enthusiest]

Some of you may recall all the tuning problems I have had with my 1650 over the past 6 months. it would start fine, but required half choke for 5 minutes before you could run it without choke. I spent many hours fiddling with the carburetor, and was able to get it running well enough to throw snow all winter. I would spend about a half hour tuning each day I ran it. it would burn through a full tank of fuel in under an hour, and it ran so hot the muffler would turn red and the hood would get too hot to touch. I had enough of all the problems this weekend and decided I was gonna fix it. I had to service the ISO mount system, so I pulled the entire engine out to make adjusting the timing easier. I pulled of the timing cover, rotated the engine, and the points barely moved. they would only break every second time, but the pushrod was moving the full distance... but it was loose. so I found the S mark on the flywheel, and turned the engine so the pushrod was all the way out. I then set the points to .o18. checked if visually, compareing the point activity to the location of the flywheel... dead on. So I put it back together, cleaned it up, and put it back in. half choke, first turn... fired right up. I did a bit of tuning... this thing now has more power and run even better than my 782! I am now proud to be a quietline owner, as it doesnt shake or rattle, and it is very quiet. I am happy with this tractor for once. it now has 10X the power it had before, it will hit 3600 no problem, and it throttles up in under a quarter second. oh... and it takes 2.5 hours to burn a tank of fuel too. I put an ultimate ignition system on it a while ago... that was probaly the only reason it ran. so... to all you people experiencing carburetor trouble, 90% of carburetor problems are electrical, and timing is everything!