Recent content by Viscount

Like trying to describe a spiral staircase without moving your hands........ incidentally I now think that the tinkling may be coming from a baffle in the exhaust silencer. Thanks all again for your help.

I'll try not to. On a 40 year old tractor, it's bound to be making some noises. The gearbox has a good whine - bit like the owner really. Just been out and mowed a paddock and produced so much grass that I don't know what to do with it (it's been a dry summer here and the stuff has really been...

I'll have a go. Nothing really to see and difficult to pinpoint - sounds like a bunch of light keys tinkling (I thought that's what it was at first). I wasn't too worried about it to be honest - do you think I should be?

Thanks for all your help and advice on this one. The seller sent me a reconditioned Starter motor/solenoid assembly. I tested this and then fitted - and having rehearsed it well the fitting was even more straightforward than I could ever have imagined. Just rather glad that I still have a full...

With my current problems with the same machine could it be that the starter motor isn't disengaging from the flywheel as quickly as it should be?

Like this? Digital cameras are wonderful. In the old days you would have to wait two weeks before you could finish the job whilst you waited for the prints to arrive in the post!! The other thing that is wonderful - provided you can sift out the genuine material from the rubbish - is YouTube...

Got that one thanks! :)

Well, further tests indicate that it's the starter motor that is at the root cause of this. Jumping direct off the battery, as suggested earlier, produced no response, but checks that full voltage was flowing down the solenoid trigger wire when the crank switch was closed were good. Battery is...

Used vehicle warranty provided by the vendor as he trades as a business - a guarantee is provided under English Law and the item has to be "fit for purpose".

As it's still in warranty, I think I'll leave this to my dealer or his agent just in case physical damage could result. As my dealer is a couple of hundred miles away, I'm just trying to get a diagnosis or low risk simple fix if one exists, at the moment - your advice is valuable.

Thank you very much for this guidance. Fortunately, being of an age where I used to run a VW Type 2 Bay Window, I have a 12v bulb and probe - about the most sophisticated measuring instrument that I possess. Taking the spare wires out of the equation certainly helps. However the White Black...

Thanks for welcoming me on board. Have a small problem - well quite a large one really - with a B7001D acquired a couple of months ago with a flail mower to cut my paddocks. It had been working well, starting on first turn of the key and generally doing its' job well. Last weekend I used it...