My 100 is acting up and I suspect it may be the carburetor. I've already had it running this year and turned about 75% of the garden last week. While it was running though, I had to leave the choke on the entire time otherwise it would die.
The last time I used it, it kept running worse and worse until it wouldn't run at all and hasn't cranked since.
I cleaned the points and put in a new spark plug and neither seemed to help. After reading some on this forum, I checked the throttle shaft and there seems to be some play in it.
Question: Should I buy a kit(s) and rebuild this carburetor or buy one of the aftermarket carbs online?
If I rebuild this one, where is the best place to source parts, and what exactly will I need?
Is there anything else I might need to look at on the tractor as well?
Here is a picture of the top of the carburetor. The linkage looks a little different than some of the other pictures I've seen. I also noticed that the linkage is broken at the throttle shaft and just seems to be sitting there, not really fastened.
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Let me know what you think. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so please type slow.
Don