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Default lawn tractor w/ bad starter?

On May 13, 8:31*am, mfreak wrote:
Its 12v? Battery reads about 12.8v so its fully charged? try jumping
it with your car battery, You could hit the starter while trying to
start it if nothing remove it and see if it works before buying a new
one.


It is 12v, a multimeter shows 12.5 or so. *When I turn the key it
drops to about 7v. *I have a new battery already, the guy at the shop
was all-too-eager to sell me anything he could, my battery was getting
old anyway so I bought a new one just to rule it out. *Same results
with the new battery.


Dropping to 7v is concerning, maybe pull the starter and see what it
does off the tractor.