What I am trying to figure out: Cub Cadet Model #13AQ92AP010 with a Kohler SV730-0011 with 122 hours. This is the short and sweet of it:
- Neighbor can't get it started, so I go and see the starter gear is stuck and free that up and clean it up. Put it back on his mower and it turns and retracts as it should.
- Neighbor tries to start it and it is sluggish and will hardly turn over. (He has a new battery with only 160 CCA so I use mine that has 350 cranking amps/420 CCA) My battery turns the engine better but it still won't start.
- Neighbor says: "Yeah, I notice when I put a jumpbox on the mower to start it with a good battery it will give it the extra UMPH and it normally would start."
- So my buddy hooks it up and Voila! It acts sluggish initially but had a little more pep and started it up.
- I took my battery off of it and put his back on and it started, but reluctantly so.
Would this be indicative of the compression release gone in the engine? Thank you for your time.