Will she start?

[soaked]

Ive not seen that lever before.
What does the hook connect to?
What is it for?

 

[MissouriLarry]

Ive not seen that lever before.
What does the hook connect to?
What is it for?

I am not entirely sure what the lever does, it was there when I purchased the tractor. When you push the clutch pedal down it causes the lever to pivot forward/backwards depending on which end of the lever you are looking at. There was a rod at the other end of the lever that when up to where the carburetor is located. The carburetor was off when I bought this tractor so the rod was not hooked to anything on that end. I am assuming it was some sort of de-accelerator when the clutch was pressed, MAYBE?

 

[soaked]

I am not entirely sure what the lever does, it was there when I purchased the tractor. When you push the clutch pedal down it causes the lever to pivot forward/backwards depending on which end of the lever you are looking at. There was a rod at the other end of the lever that when up to where the carburetor is located. The carburetor was off when I bought this tractor so the rod was not hooked to anything on that end. I am assuming it was some sort of de-accelerator when the clutch was pressed, MAYBE?

Interesting!
Wonder what impliment, or loader, or having a handicap, caused its design/ creation?
Did the rod to the carb area travel under the tractor?
Was the hook connected to a spring?
Pictures?

 

[MissouriLarry]

Interesting!
Wonder what impliment, or loader, or having a handicap, caused its design/ creation?
Did the rod to the carb area travel under the tractor?
Was the hook connected to a spring?
Pictures?

The tractor was quite taken apart when I bought it. The rod went up towards the front similar to the throttle rod but was hooked to nothing in the condition I found it. Had a weird loop on one end of the rod if I remember right. I will try to get a better photo later this evening when I get home. The person who owned this had no idea about working on it, there was a lot of things that was wrong with this unit that I had to either fix, hook up properly. They even had the spark plugs wires backwards through the wire holder on the head. They were trying to put the distributor ends at the spark plugs. The wiring was all going to the wrong places. Don't even get me talking about the governor linkages. I will try to report back later.

 

[soaked]

Everyone is different, thats for sure
The rod with the weird loop reminds me of a Dowden foot pedal like this

Edit added arrow and loop to pic

 

[MissouriLarry]

Below is close up photos of the whole set up like it was when I bought it. It goes from the clutch pedal, over the bell housing then the rod goes up to where the carburetor is. As I said, the carburetor was off when I got this tractor. Also, not pictured but found on the governor to carburetor rod was the small round stop with set screw that is shown in the photo above by the rounded loop end. I can see some of the parts are the same but some are different. All I can think of was it would pull the throttle back when the clutch was pushed. I don't know what this served but that is my guess.

 

[soaked]

Yes, it sure looks like a throttle reducing set up when cluch disengages.
Maybe the guy that put in on had a special needs situation going on?
Maybe more clues will show themselves in the future

 

[markdtn]

That is strange. The Dowden foot feed operates by setting a base throttle with the hand lever and then the foot pulls it further back to speed up. See post 25. So the foot is connected to the throttle and the loop is on the hand lever. This one when you push the clutch the loop moves forward but I don't see anything that would actually make the throttle go slower? Am I missing something?

 

[soaked]

The rod from gov to carb is supposed to be straight, and when clipped on is ~7 1/4" long. If the stopper was between the "loop" and the gov, then the clutch set up would try to push back against the gov flyball force. Agree doesnt seem workable. Something to ponder...