Craftsman 917.293471 Owner's Manual page 21

PROBLEM
Engine
overheats
Excessive
bounce/difficult
handling
Soil balls up or
clumps
Engine runs but
tillerwon't
move
Engine runs but
labors when
Ulling
CAUSE CORREC_ON
1. Low oil level/dirty oil.
2. Dirty engine air screen.
3. Dirty engine.
4. Partially plugged muffler.
5. Improper carburetor
adjustment.
1. Ground too dry and hard.
1. Ground too wet.
1. Tins control is not
engaged.
2. V-belt not correctly
adjusted.
3. V-belt is off pulley(s).
1. Tilling too deep,
2. Throttle control not
properly adjusted.
3. Carburetor out of
adjustment.
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.
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3.
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3.
Moisten ground or wait for
more favorable soil condi-
tions.
Wait for more favorable
soil conditions.
Engage tins control.
Inspect/adjust V-belt.
Inspect V-belt.
Set depth stake for shallower
tilling.
Check throttle control setting.
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. Tiller shuts off
when drive
control bar
engaged
.
1. Shift lever set in between
counter rotating till posi-
tion and forward rotating
till position.
2. Tines jammed.
Shift to either counter
rotating till position or
forward rotating
till position.
Clear tines.
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