I did not see a date on battery, but seller told me it was only a few months old. I took it to autozone, not even enough charge to run their tester. They charged it and it checked out just fine and is holding charge well.
I put the battery back in my 2166 and it cranked up even better than before, and the pto engaged every time I tried it. (there does seem to be a power drain when pto engages, you can tell easily, but once blades are going everything returns to normal, is this normal? I don't remember my old murray doing this....but it did not have a pto clutch, just a manual lever to engage pully).
Anyways, I was thinking maybe an alternator then, if battery is not bad, maybe it is not getting charged from alternator/powering things in place of alternator if it is bad. So I got the engine running and disconnected one of the leads from the battery and engine stopped instantly. I know on cars this is a dead give away for a bad alternator. Does the same apply here? If so, any advice/links for a walkthrough on replacing the alternator?
Am I getting in over my head, or is this one man doable? lol
Apologies that I could not reply back yesterday, and MANY thanks for your insight and advice.
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