TROUBLESHOOTING
CHART:
See appropriate section in manual unless directed to Sears service center
PROBLEM
Engine
overheats
CAUSE
1. Low oil level/dirty oil.
2. Dirty engine air screen.
3. Dirty engine.
4. Partially plugged muffler.
5. Improper carburetor
adjustment.
CORRECTION
1. Check oil level/change oil.
2. Clean engine air screen.
3. Clean cylinder fins, air
screen, muffler area.
4. Remove and clean muffler.
5. Adjust carburetor to richer
position.
Excessive
1. Ground too dry and hard.
1. Moisten ground or wait for
bounce/difficult
more favorable soil condi-
handling
tions.
Soil balls up or
1. Ground too wet.
1. Wait for more favorable
clumps
soil conditions.
Engine runs but
1. Tine control is not
1. Engage tine control.
tiller won't
engaged.
move
2. V-belt not correctly
2. Inspect/adjust V-belt.
adjusted.
3. V-belt is off pulley(s).
3. Inspect V-belt.
1. Tilling too deep.
Engine runs but
labors when
tilling
2. Throttle control not
properly adjusted.
3. Carburetor out of
adjustment.
1. Set depth stake for shallower
tilling.
2. Check throttle control setting.
3. Make necessary adjust
merits.
Tines Skip
1. Shear pin (s) broken.
1. Replace shear pin(s).
over ground
Hard to Shift
1. Gears not timmed.
1. Briefly engage drive control
into gear
bar and release or rock tiller
forward and backward until
are able to shift gears.
1. Shift lever set in between
counter rotating till posi-
tion and forward rotating
till position.
2. Tines jammed.
Tiller shuts off
when drive
control bar
engaged
1. Shift to either counter
rotating till position or
forward rotating
till position.
2. Clear tines.
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