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Craig, I just saw your email.  It looks like you've figured out posting.  Welcome aboard!

We are now fairly small in number here, but hopefully one of our regulars can help you out with the spring.  If you have any good pics of projects, post them up for us!
 

Ken - These aren't my thing, but cool to see and follow.  I'm amazed at what a hot mess they look like inside, even after "restored".  No breadboard, no order, just a jumbled mess of soldered connections in free air!  They have to be terrible to trace out unless you have real tribal-knowledge of the...

Same to all, Happy Thanksgiving!  I'm late checking in here, busy day hosting a bit of crowd.
I'll be digging into one of my 2182 ignition systems this weekend, I might try to find time to post something interesting.

Tim - Certainly, glad to see you posting.  

Ha!  Yes... Eight is definitely more than "the one" you went shopping for!  
Enjoy, it's a good haul!
 

BM - D2 seems like a pretty stand up guy, and you compare him to Dag?  Harsh!! :lol: Hey, D2, next time try  https://www.messicks.com/   They've an easy to use look-up similar to PartsTree, but usually better prices and reasonable shipping.  I've actually driven up there for parts once, but shipping...

Gary - Welcome!  We look forward to seeing you post as you bring this one back to life!  Post anything you like concerning this in the "Cub Cadets and shooting the breeze" sub-forum.  Thanks for the great pictures, they are always welcome!
 

Without reviewing anything but my memory, 60" Haban is for Super's only.

Kevin has an excellent point.  The original ignition switch would have provided 12V to power the coil with a points system.  The Command (and Magnum) use a magneto which needs an entirely different ignition switch.  The ignition switch for a magneto ignition replaces the "12V power to coil" with a p...

Kohler Command?  Are you sure it's not a Magnum?  At any rate, you can download the engine manuals from the Kohler website.  If it is a Magnum, very likely that the magneto is bad.  Pretty easy job other than you have to remove the engine to get to it.  Don't believe the posts by people that said th...

As Kevin says, likely just the inner cable frozen inside the cable housing from some rust.  With the style that doesn't have an outer plastic jacket you might first try dribbling some penetrating oil on the outside of the housing and it will seep through the spirals of the outer housing.  I've been ...

That's just how weather goes sometimes.  For my area I'm waiting for the snow cycle to start again.  We always go a few years without much snow, people start claiming it'll never snow again, then we get hit hard!  I think I'd be fine if I never had to mount up the blower again!

Well, I guess you can do it that way if you want to take short cuts... 

We better stop spamming up Ken's baffle thread before he sics his cat on us!  At least I think I remember he has an attack cat...

Dave, do you keep the plasma refrigerated so it doesn't go bad (like this joke)?

Allan, nice improvements!  Good to see it moving along.

+1 on Ray Weaver.  He doesn't give parts away, but he won't do you wrong, and he'll make it right if something doesn't go how it's supposed to.  Myself and dag have met at Ray's a few times for a visit, always interesting visiting Ray!

Ken - So sorry, that is tough luck.  I was in the same boat a few years ago, discovered my latest "new to me" tractor had a broken transmission case.  A shave and haircut turned into a major project before I could use it. I'm not intimately familiar with this particular engine, but I'm assuming that...

Good stuff Dave, keep the pics coming! 

"Mommy, look... Somebody buried a tractor named Kenneth with a cat named Debra!"  

Jon - Welcome.  This site has most of us into the older/vintage garden tractors, not much traffic on here for zero turns.  I'm just mentioning this as you'll see a lack of responses as we just don't have familiarity for your machine.  That said, some general advice... The best case scenario is to ha...

Steve, yeah, my feeling is with the first nice day of spring I'm always already behind!  Do the best you can, get to it when you can get to it.  I've still got a raft of winter sticks down in the yard I have to pick up before I can mow.  Probably at leas eight hours of yard cleanup before I can even...

Steve - Wow, that's a tough story.  So sorry for your family's pain. 
Hang in there, get the medical care you need when you need it!  We need you around here for years to come.

Good stuff Dave!  I like the "picture heavy" with narration format!  Thanks for continuing to share the story!

Dave - In my immediately previous post, the "clinking beer mugs" ( ) get changed into a new beer emoji:

But in this post they did not?  Any way to be sure we retain the traditional emojis from the right hand pane?

Ken - Wow, and we thought winter was about over and you'd escaped a saga this year!  Not to be!  I'm glad you and the neighbors survived relatively unscathed in the end.  But, while you're going through it, you don't know for sure the power will be back in time.  Glad it worked out.

Dave - I'm trying it right now!  Very cool!  Even font color is easy to access!  A bunch of funky new emojis too:  ❄

Thanks for the improvement!  

Ken - I find in the real world, there really aren't all that many coincidences, so hopefully this will be it. I mean, really, how much can really be destined to fail all at the same time? Lol :lol: I don't see how bad points could wipe out the coil, but very easily the other way around... An interna...

Ken, I'd try running it heavily dosed on MMO, perhaps that will clean it up. Anyway, it sounds like you're honed in on a solution.

Ken, I think you've got it nailed now. Nothing lost addressing the carb, finger tight mounting bolts and dried up gaskets were either part of the problem or about to be. I agree that coils aren't always digital, they can cause intermittent problems as they start to fail and can therefore be difficul...

Joe, you pretty much covered all the bases, but will he need a different length driveshaft with the non Briggs options? I'm too lazy look it up and I know you probably know off the top of your head!

Kenty, Welcome! Stick with it and ask questions, you'll get it sorted.