Without the air filter, the mixture is too lean. You can sometimes get em
going with a squirt of ether, which riches up the mix.

A friend of mine's tractor was like that. Had an oil bath air filter.
Without it, it would run with the choke pulled partly closed, but would
stall out with choke opened.

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"Bob Engelhardt" wrote in message
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Al Bundy wrote:
Thanks for the laugh Bob. That was a good one.

No, seriously. I used to bring home mowers from the dump, get them
running, and sell them. I had mowers that wouldn't run without the
filter. By "proper air flow" I didn't mean sufficient air flow, but
correct air flow. I think that I read an explanation of this somewhere,
but can't remember the logic. My memory is full and new stuff pushes
out the old to make room. G

Bob