• This community needs YOUR help today. With the ever increasing fees of everything (server, software, domain, e-mail) , we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community to help spread our love and knowledge of IH Cub Cadets. You get a lot of great new account perks including access to private forums. If you sign up for annual, I will ship a few IH Cub Cadet Forum decals too in addition to all the account perks you get. You can see what it looks like below.

    Sign up here: https://www.ihcubcadet.com/account/upgrades

Recent content by jchamberlin

IH Cub Cadet Tractor Forum

Help Support IH Cub Cadet Tractor Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. jchamberlin

    Questions about M18 flywheel removal to repair charging.

    Thanks for reporting back. Glad it worked out for you.
  2. jchamberlin

    12 hp magnum

    Sounds to me like the head gasket wasn't re-torqued after the engine was rebuilt. Perhaps you should install a new head gasket, torque it down, run it enough to warm it up, let it cool and re-torque it. Work it some, and then re-torque once more. Someone with more experience rebuilding these...
  3. jchamberlin

    Questions about M18 flywheel removal to repair charging.

    I have repaired an M18 that would run the lights but couldn't charge the battery by gluing all the magnets back in place with metal-flake impregnated epoxy. I used a 1/4" drill bit to space them around the inside perimeter of the fly wheel. The hardest part was maintaining the proper polarity of...
  4. jchamberlin

    No start

    What the diagram will show is that when the key is placed in the Start position, the current must pass from the “B” terminal on the key to the “S” terminal on the key, and then through the PTO safety switch (deck must be disengaged), and then through the Neutral Safety Switch (foot must be on...
  5. jchamberlin

    Fancy

    Marlin, sorry to hear from you about Angel’s passing. I searched the Forum and found that you had already posted the news. I know you’ve been through a lot in the last few years, including a serious illness of your own. I hope you are able to take care of yourself, and that you have a support...
  6. jchamberlin

    Smoke machine

    Better: after cleaning it up, fit it with an electric fuel pump. Sponsor Kirk Engines sells one for tractors, or at least it used to.
  7. jchamberlin

    How Cold Is IT?

    Marty, no real problems here, I think the drain on the ground floor backed up and got the floor in the laundry room wet. It gurgled when I flushed the toilet downstairs. Other than that, my son and I spent about an hour picking up pine cones in the front yard. Haven't touched the back yard yet...
  8. jchamberlin

    How Cold Is IT?

    All: Florence didn't just slow down, it dang near stopped & stood still. It poured wind and especially rain down on where my son lives in Newport, NC (just down the street from the National Weather Service outpost and about 20 minutes north of Morehead City, NC) Thursday, Friday, Saturday into...
  9. jchamberlin

    Archive through August 25, 2018

    Jim S. Sure sounds like a sticking valve to me. I had a valve stick on me with a B&S engine, running the low-ash oil from Cub Cadet really seemed to help. If a valve is sticking, the engine should crank a bit differently, as in a bit faster or easier. Just a thought. Hope you get it...
  10. jchamberlin

    Archive through July 19, 2018

    I remember Don Tanner (may he rest in peace) had a time with his voltage regulators. Charlie helped him "recover" from more than one installation, if I recall correctly.
  11. jchamberlin

    Archive through June 03, 2018

    Scott: Helped my neighbor solve his "crappy mowing" JD problem, same reason, blades on upside down. I suspect more than a few people have done the same thing. Just think, it's stuff like this that keep us humble and remind us that we're human after all. Great post.
  12. jchamberlin

    The 1712 is pissed at me today

    Digger: Shouldn't have to adjust the carb, but you didn't mention changing the oil. Alot of times the gasoline from the tank ends up in the crankcase thinning the oil out a good deal. I like to install electric pumps on the KT engines. The only thing I can think might have happened is that...
  13. jchamberlin

    PTO on cub 1862

    Good Job, Ron. Sounds like it was just a loose or dirty connection. It happens. Especially when the equipment sits unused for any length of time, like over the winter. I'll have to think about your re-starting problem. I can't imagine why grounding one wire would help the other one fire...
  14. jchamberlin

    PTO on cub 1862

    Thanks Ron. If I were there, I would focus first on your PTO issue. I would put the ignition key in the "Run" position and the PTO switch in the "Start" position and check to see that two things happen: 1. The PTO clutch pulls in (as you say it does) 2. The Reverse Relay pulls in while you...
  15. jchamberlin

    PTO on cub 1862

    Ron, the problems may be related, let's look at it. Step One: According to what I'm seeing on the schematic, the tractor indicator light #1 (in the schematic should come on to tell you to "Depress Left Pedal," that is your brake. When you depress your brake pedal, you make your brake switch...
Back
Top