Ihave a garden tractor with a 14 horse tecumseh, electric start and am having problems with the compression release and valve settings. If you can answer some questions about it please e mail me direct in that this subject is a bit dry for this forum, thanx moopups@citlink.net

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), September 29, 2001

Answers

When you said Tecumseh that is the problem

-- Mel Kelly (melkelly@webtv.net), September 29, 2001.

Melody, save your BS for someone who wants to hear it.....

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), September 29, 2001.

We just picked ours up today at TSC... They did the valve adjustment and its running great..at least for now .. Its been a piece of crap since the day we brought home. I think their tech finally figured out the valves this time.. (its been back 10 times in three years). Not impressed with the tecumseh and will never buy another. I was recently given a cub cadet with a Kohler (off a junk pile) and the thing has already been more reliable than the Tecumseh.

-- Scott (sbitzer@columbus.rr.com), September 29, 2001.

Mitch - There's a lawn and Garden tractor forum over at garden web. Post your question there and you should get some additional advice. Keep in mind some of those people are pretty passionate; so you'll probably get a few remarks on the tecumseh; plus some good advice. Good luck. D Ray

-- D Ray (rotchadl@ll.net), September 30, 2001.

Yes the answer was there, I did not need to post, just searched their site; Tecumseh OHV engines valves are set at .004 intake and .002 exhaust. Anybody wanna race....

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), September 30, 2001.