Hi all ,
I posted late last year about an old suffolk punch that I picked up at an auction ( cos it reminded me of my grandad ) and you guys helped me to get it running. Its still going strong and I use it all the time.
So last week i found another one and this has a different problem. Its a smaller suffolk mower and has a zenith type13 TCA-2 carburettor .The issue I have is that when I open the fuel tap and fill the fuel bowl the fuel drips from the air intake . It seems clear that the carb is flooding and that the float needle is not sealing as the fuel bowl fills but I cant see why not . I have stripped and cleaned the carb and at first thought the needle in the float was in the wrong position as it seemed like it was too short to seal the seating without the float hitting the tickler. The needle slides in the float ( not sure if it should ) so I moved it hoping that would fix it.... It helped but it still leaks . Can you get new floats , needles and the seatings still or can anyone suggest a solution ?
Would love to get this one going too as my dad would like it as its smaller than mine and he could manage it I think .
Thanks in advance

Paul

Hi ,
I posted a couple of weeks ago about a suffolk super punch 17" ball bearing mower that I picked up at an auction and was hoping to firstly get running and then maybe restore. I was having issues with getting a spark and after cleaning the points and resetting it looked like I had fixed the problem as with the spark plug laying on the top of the block , i could see good spark. I decided I would clean the carb before starting properly and needed to wait for some bits to arrive and also decided to investigate why the drive lever wouldnt do anything ( fixed that )  so its taken till the end of last week to actually try and restart it .
So when the time finally came around , it started pretty much first pull and ran for about 20 secs .... Then stopped , wouldnt start , no spark . I metered out the spark plug cap and no resistance ( open circuit) .... I had changed the original cap for a new one as that was open circuit too . The new cap can be dismantled and has a small resistor?? inside which i presume is for noise suppression? and that measures no resistance so I am assuming had blown. I figured maybe the new cap was of poor quality so ordered another from a different supplier and fitted that today ( metered it before I put it on and it was fine )  , again , good spark on the block , started first pull and ran smooth as you like for 30-60secs then stopped , wont start , no spark , resistor open circuit again.
So , im at a bit of a loss as to what is causing the resistor to blow in the cap and what can I do to fix the issue ? Starting to wonder if I am flogging a dead horse but it wants to run and is a functioning motor and mower .... For 30-60secs 
Wondering if I should just move it on to someone who has better knowledge of these old mowers ( I basically have none ) ..... but I'd really quite like to win this battle

Thanks in advance for any advice or info

Cheers

Paul

Ps . Cant find my original post anywhere , and my profile shows no posts ??

Hi all ,
Brand new to the forum and hoping I might be able to get some help with a suffolk super punch 17" ball bearing mower I felt sorry for at an auction and couldnt leave there ( starting to wish I had !) .
My issue is that it wont start , no spark . Have changed the spark plug for a new champion J8C , cleaned and gapped the points but still nothing . I have attempted to meter out the points to ht lead . I get 1ohm across the points when they are open and 4.95kohms if I meter from the end of the HT lead to the points. I have no idea if this is correct or not. I have changed the cap on the end of the ht lead as there was no resistance at all on the old one . The new one has a 1k resistor inside it and it does read 1k across the cap and adds 1k to the overall resistance if I measure from end of ht lead to points with the cap v's without it. I am at a bit of a loss as to what to try next so any advice would be much appreciated. I have no idea how old this machine is ( but would love to know ) but my guess is it could be older than me and it seems such a shame to see it thrown on a skip when it appears to have been pretty well loved throughout its life.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give
Will attach some pics if I can figure out how .....keeps telling me the file is too large