My 20+ year old Craftsman garden tractor is having a problem. It has a 20 Horse Kohler. I got tired of buying fuel pumps for it so I Put an electric fuel pump on it. Now at least it will start and it seemed to have plenty of power. Next day it didn’t. I pulled the carb off to clean it but i’m not confident that’s all that is wrong. I don’t have a wiring diagram. Besides the seat and blade control what energizes the solenoid on the carb? Does it stop fuel when energized or when it’s not energized, it does work.
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Catherine
Hello :welcome:
I'm going to move this thread over to our Craftsman section.
It is deenergized when you cut off the key.
When you turn the key to run, you should hear/feel it click...that being the little metal plunger inside slamming open.
It is deenergized when you cut off the key.
When you turn the key to run, you should hear/feel it click...that being the little metal plunger inside slamming open.
The solenoid works and it will start but it’s not giving me full power. It bogs down. It was running fine and cut off one day 2 passes before I was finished. Fuel filter was empty (almost) with fuel in tank. I’ve had to replace the fuel pump before, a few times so this time I put an electric pump on it and it fired up right away. Sounded good on day one but day two bogs down. Have carb off now cleaning it.
