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In Reply to: 2005 John Deere L100: HELP NEEDED!!!!!! posted by Michelle Forsythe on Thursday, August 27, 2009:
The L 100 as all the other "L" series tractors were designed to meet a price that would sell at "box stores". To meet that price and be competitive with other machines in the same price range, Components are chosen based on price. In effect the old saying "you get what you pay for" comes into play with the less expensive lawn tractors. Now I'm not saying that $1500-2000 isn't a lot of money, because it sure is to me, but to get real long lasting strongly built machines that you can be confident will last a decade or more, will cost a lot more than that. Also no one can tell you that a machine has "X" number of cuttings left in it before it dies, but these were designed with an approx life of 500 hours plus or minus. Not knowing where you are, but guessing that it takes you about 2 1/2 hours to cut the lawn, times 30 times a year for 5 years, tells me you have about 375 hours on yours? So that's the history lesson on tractor life.
Now to the symptoms your particular machine is showing. Could be you have some water in your fuel, or old gas, or crud in the bottom of your fuel tank that's sloshing around and ocassionally plugging the hole the fuel goes out of, or the carb needs to be disassembled and cleaned/possibly rebuilt, or a loose wire connection on a safety switch, or less likely, but if you have lost weight recently there were some of the seat safety switches that had difficulty registering a smaller operator. If the tractor gets slightly tilted and you shift your weight a little, the seat suddenly thinks you fell off and stops the motor. But I'm inclined to think it's either carborator or electrical related in that order. None of the things I described above is catastrophic to fix, and at this point, you are out of waarrantee, so I'd probably take it to a local independant lawn mower/small engine repair shop. Check your yellow pages to see if you have one near by. Or if you have some tools and want to learn AND save money, we can talk you thru most of the stuff here.
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