[klejeune]

I finally got to mow again last night with the 1450. It's been so wet here. Beautiful today so at lunch I got to drive around the yard a little on the 124 I picked up a couple of months back. I've been working off and on trying to get parts and stuff to see if it would run. I thought I had everything set up right, but still couldn't get any fire. I had fuel, spark at the points and spark at the plug held to the block. I even tried a different coil... but not mounted down. I was going to try a coil off of my 100 that I know will spark, but thought before I go diving over the hood in the back of the shed I'd try the other coil again, but bolt it down this time. 1/2 crank and it was running!

I had to pick up a throttle cable last night and got that on at lunch. I still need a choke cable, reset the points and tune the carb in a little more. I also need to pull the engine shrouds off and clean out the fins and change the oil.

Now for the kicker. It won't go into 2nd and 3rd so I'll have to pull the shifter off and see what's up with that. But I at least got to drive around... slowly in 1st and reverse. The clutch is a little iffy but works for now.

Oh, I also put in a steering column from a 1650. It's a little longer so that was nice. Steers much better too.

I think I'll see how it handles Jerry B's Brinly box blade tonight.