1282 - No Start.
 

Hey there, I’m having some trouble getting my 1282 to start. When I got it had been sitting a few years, I purchased a new carb and I could get it to run, just not very well, until it just stopped all together. I have cleaned it, and tried to clean the original carb and no results either way. I have cleaned and set the points and it seems to have good spark. Even with spraying starter ether down the carb it still won’t do much except maybe firing once or twice.
I am not really sure where to go from here and some advice would be much appreciated.
Thank you!

So when you prime the carb and say it will fire but not run. Does that
mean it quits turning over. Or can you continue to crank with no start?
Sounds like you have good spark. Are you sure you have good fuel flow
to the carb and good compression?
If you battery is suspect that will mess with you as well.
Let us know what you find.

Ken

Timing is critical along with proper point gap(dwell). While hard to do with the ACR, proper compression is critical to starting these.

You may have washed down the cylinder walls by spraying either into it.
Not a good idea.
Static time the engine first off, make sure you have a good clean flow of fuel as well as compression.

It will “fire” enough to where I have to let off of the starter and when the engine stops turning I can crank it again. I am fairly certain that I have good enough fuel flow as if I crank it long enough it will flood itself.
I guess that making sure I have correct timing and compression would be the next step?

“You may have washed down the cylinder walls by spraying either“
I have tried to use minimal ether to prevent that, however it could have drilled happened.

Thank you all for the advice!

I have yet to mess up any engine with ether. I think it actually prevents damage to the battery/starter/key switch when it's 20 degree outs. :bigthink:

Alright, I finally got back on this project today. I got it to fire up and run for 15ish minutes. I replaced and set the points, and adjusted the carb as the manual says to do. I got it to run and it ran fairly good. However after it got warmed up it just died, no backfire and sputtering. The only way I could get it to run after that was with Carb Clean.
I’m going to try it tomorrow after it’s cooled down to see if it might start cold.
I checked and it did have good fuel flow and spark after it quit. I would think if the gas was bad it wouldn’t have started in the first place.

Just out of curiosity how much gas is in your tank? If I remember right the K series engines in the spread frame 82 series tractors have a tough time getting fuel down to the carb if the line has some up and down bends in it. The twin engines have the fuel pumps to prevent that issue and maybe this engine does too. Just something to check

Anything less than a quarter tank of fuel requires a fuel pump in the 82 series. Anything above that, gravity will properly feed the engine.

This model has fuel pump as well. I checked for fuel flow today, it has a strong flow to the pump however nothing came out of the line at the carb, so i took the line off at the pump and it would pump just enough to make fuel come out but not enough to make it to the carb. I guess I’ll need to pickup a fuel pump and see if that fixes it.