You seem to be observant and should be able to get this figured out. Assuming that the carb solenoid had been enabled and the tractor ran- I'd leave it unhooked. The plunger can be nipped off and it will run fine or you can pay real money to Kohler for a new one. AN inline valve is a good idea for this carb. BTW the solenoid doesn't prevent flooding, it merely blocks the tube in the carb as an anti- backfire measure. Most of these had a rubber cap that made the seal actually. This rider will start and run w/o the operator on the seat provided that A) the park brake is set and B) the deck is disengaged. Headlight wires seem to be an item that pops the fuse often enough too. Post the 917# from below the seat if you need further assistance. Good luck.

Haven't paid a credit card fee in years? Maybe not a direct fee ... if you have a no-annual-fee card, have never exceeded limit, been late in paying, and pay off amount owing in full each month. But ... ... the stores usually pay rent for the reading machines, and a commission on all of their volume, e.g. if they present a bill for $100., get paid $96. - 98. or so. Which is paid by the patrons of the store. Those of us who pay cash say that we should get a discount. Some tell me that the store's agreement with the card co. does not allow them to do that. Which means that cash customers help pay for the credit card system, as well. Not only that, when I've discussed the value of cards at the check-out and a clerk says that it makes no difference to her ... I ask her whether she'd prefer that the store pay her from my cash purchase or from the credit card purchase of the person who preceded. Though she claims not to care, when I tell her that if it were to be paid tonight and were from my purchase, she'd get $100. of $100. owed, paid tonight. If from the credit card purchase ... ... she'd have to wait about 6 weeks ... and get $96. - 98. instead of $100. They don't like that scenario much. The credit card companies don't operate on hot air! I've heard that about half of the credit card users pay off the balance in full each month, but recently heard that in the U.S. it's in the 40's percentage, and in Canada the 60's percentage of holders who do. ________________________ Memo to folks who carry store-issued cards and don't pay off balances owing in full monthly: do you know how to make about 35% return on your money - guaranteed? Usually your favourite store that issued the card charges 25 - 28% annual rate on balances owing regarding purchases made on the card which are not paid by the next payment date. Most of the stuff that most of us buy using the card is not tax-deductible, so you must pay the credit card fee with after-tax money. If you are in 25% tax bracket, dividing 28% by 3 gives you about 9 ... multiply that by 4, gives you 36. So when you earn $36. and pay tax of 25%, or $9.00, you have $27.00 in after-tax residue in your pocket to pay the fee on the loan of $100. of credit card debt (if it could be carried intact for a year, without additional fees). Good wishes for increasingly wise use of not only your income, ... ... but your assets, too ... ... and shrewdly (plus honestly) increasing the assets, as well. You get 2 payoffs: - in the short and medium term - a measure of financial F R E E D O M! and - in the medium to long term - early retirement (more F R E E D O M!). ole joyful

You know what, yes, DH and I are much better off financially than BM. But, that is because I work my butt off to make sure that I am making enough money to cover everything. I make significantly more money than DH does and if he were by himself he would never be able to afford the things we are able to together. I will not apologize for working hard and making sacrifices to better myself. I will not apologize because I am able to afford to buy oldest son an Ipod for his birthday and BM is not. She is the only one making the choice to stay at her waitressing job. She is the only one choosing to work only three days a week barely working more than five hours each shift. Dh and I both work 40 hours a week and most times more and yet still manage to make time to work around the kids schedule and get everything done. I am the person who has decided that I want more success in my career and is going back to school. BM said she was going back to school but then never showed to her classes and failed her classes. Dh and I both are on the run from far before sunrise to far after sunset ... so no I will not apologize or feel guilty that I have a nice home or that I just went shopping to get some new work clothes... and it bugs me to no end to hear not only the people on this forum (certain people) throwing that in the air all of the time... but BM as well. I don't really care if she is broke or can't afford to do what she wants and I dont really care if her BF totalled her car and she can't afford another one so she has to drive her moms... that is not my problem ... We make sure the kids are taken care of and that is the end of our responsibilities. I will not feel guilty for making something out of my life and I will not feel guilty for encouraging DH to do the same. Before I came along he was so low on himself and his own abilities he never even thought to work in a managerial role in his profession... now, that is something he is actively working towards. Oh, and BTW just an example of the full effort or care BM puts in... the other night oldest son got in trouble at school.. school called dad ... in other words son in BIG trouble... well, BM picked kids up from school that day (DH had called bm to let her know what happened) oldest son lied to BM denying what happened ..(he had no idea BM and DH had talked) needless to say oldest in even more trouble... But at the crux of the problem is that this has been happening more and more with oldest. So, I decided to say something to both BM and DH ... I told them look the only reason why oldest thinks he can get away with lieing to the two of you and about the two of you is because you cant seem to have a conversation longer than 5 minutes without arguing... DH said I agree ... he hears everything that we are doing and saying and its not good for him... BM said and I qoute "well, he has been hearing that for years." As if that means things should continue exactly the way they are without care for how it affects your children ... great just one more example of why you are super mom ... not so much. I did say that that doesnt mean that it should continue and we all need to have better communication with each other or things will get out of control very quickly... ofcourse, it fell on deaf ears.

The nearest manual I have for your car is for 1988 thru 1993 full sized Chryslers. (I have driven my share of old used vehicles, too.) I was scratching my head trying to think of what could have happened to cause the event you described. At first, I thought maybe a return spring broke or came off, but then that would not repair itself and be "normal" again as you described. There are two spring loads that tend to return the accelerator pedal. These are the return spring and a small bias spring in the throttle position sensor. I do not think it was either of these. Do you have cruise control? This gadget can do exactly what you described. Its control is a set of switches in the steering wheel and can be accidentally bumped. Lets say that you accidentally activated it (turned it on) and now it is armed to take control of pulling the throttle. Hitting the resume button or accelerate button sends it into action pulling on the throttle. Depending on what the speed setting was, it will continue to open the throttle until that speed is attained and then throttle back to maintain speed. Sometimes, the system overshoots the mark. The sensation you get is a sinking pedal when the control takes over. Next comes the interesting part. Activating the brake switch temporarily releases the cruise control, so when you stepped on the brake and pushed it far enough to operate the brake switch, the cruise control let go and returned the accelerator pedal operation back to you. The system will behave normally, but if you did not turn off the cruise control, it was still armed and ready to do the same thing again. I do not know all the details of your particular model; The cruise control may or may not disarm when the ignition switch is turned off. There should be a light on the instrument panel that turns on when the cruise control is armed. It may be a green lighted word, "cruise". On a car of that age, I believe the instrument panel is lighted with incandescent bulbs. These do burn out and the cruise lamp could have been missing. If you notice that a lamp or 2 is out on the dash, re-lamp the entire dash. For instrument panels lighted with light bulbs, it a good idea to re-lamp every 5 years. Whatever the case, its best you have a qualified mechanic look into that misbehaving throttle. Let us know what you find. Do you have cruise control? Now, about your other problem. We need to know more. Was it a vibration from the wheels or was it the engine cutting out, misfiring, and generally misbehaving? If its wheel vibration that appears as speed is increased, that can be caused by several things such as wheel balance weights getting knocked off. If you have drum brakes on the rear, these should have a small balance weight tack welded on the outer surface of the drum. Sometimes, these get knocked off during service work and go un-noticed. No amount of wheel balancing wil cure the problem until the drums are rebalanced. If the braking surface (of the drums) are 1/2 worn down, it makes economic sense to replace the drums rather than to try to find a balancing service. But first, you need to determine the source of the problem before it can be attacked. Trying to fix the wrong problem does not work.