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tractor guzzling gas

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09sportsman

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i have a john deere l11 and it guzzles gas way to quick. I have two levers 1 is orange and the other is black. is it the way I have them while driving or is It just the tractor.
 
Could be anything, especially with the vague statement "guzzles gas". Assuming you have a clue how it's supposed to work(tall order, I know), I'd guess a carburetor issue.
 
John Deere does not make any tractor called the "L11."

They make an "L110" and an "L111," but no "L11."

The L110 only has a throttle lever with an integrated choke though, so I'm going to assume that you have the L111, which has a lever with an orange handle for the throttle (which should be fully forward when mowing) and a lever with a black handle for the choke.

When starting a cold engine, the throttle lever (orange handle) should be halfway and the choke lever (black handle) should be fully forward. Once the engine starts, you should slowly pull the choke lever (black handle) back until it is fully back. Then let the engine warm up for a couple moments before slowly pushing the throttle lever (orange handle) fully forward.

You should never leave the choke lever (black handle) forward when mowing. It is only for starting a cold engine.

ZV
 
Zenmervolt said:
John Deere does not make any tractor called the "L11."

They make an "L110" and an "L111," but no "L11."

The L110 only has a throttle lever with an integrated choke though, so I'm going to assume that you have the L111, which has a lever with an orange handle for the throttle (which should be fully forward when mowing) and a lever with a black handle for the choke.

When starting a cold engine, the throttle lever (orange handle) should be halfway and the choke lever (black handle) should be fully forward. Once the engine starts, you should slowly pull the choke lever (black handle) back until it is fully back. Then let the engine warm up for a couple moments before slowly pushing the throttle lever (orange handle) fully forward.

You should never leave the choke lever (black handle) forward when mowing. It is only for starting a cold engine.

ZV
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Depending on how long he ran it like that, might be worth checking the plugs being fouled from running too rich. Then again, OP started another thread with the same topic and abandoned it, so maybe this is a waste of time.
 
09sportsman said:
i have a john deere l11 and it guzzles gas way to quick. I have two levers 1 is orange and the other is black. is it the way I have them while driving or is It just the tractor.
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Change your levers to Lever A and Lever B.

If you don't know what to do with Lever A...just Leaver B. :whiste:
 
Zenmervolt said:
John Deere does not make any tractor called the "L11."

They make an "L110" and an "L111," but no "L11."

The L110 only has a throttle lever with an integrated choke though, so I'm going to assume that you have the L111, which has a lever with an orange handle for the throttle (which should be fully forward when mowing) and a lever with a black handle for the choke.

When starting a cold engine, the throttle lever (orange handle) should be halfway and the choke lever (black handle) should be fully forward. Once the engine starts, you should slowly pull the choke lever (black handle) back until it is fully back. Then let the engine warm up for a couple moments before slowly pushing the throttle lever (orange handle) fully forward.

You should never leave the choke lever (black handle) forward when mowing. It is only for starting a cold engine.

ZV
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Damn, I thought I fixed that bug during the last round of script testing.
 
DrPizza said:
No. The "tractor" is a riding lawn mower, not a tractor, though sometimes giving them the moniker "tractor" makes males living in suburbia all tingly inside.
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I've always wondered why people call them tractors. It's weird... I don't like it
 
DrPizza said:
No. The "tractor" is a riding lawn mower, not a tractor, though sometimes giving them the moniker "tractor" makes males living in suburbia all tingly inside.
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Kubota and John Deere are to take moronic dollars from said entities. Clearly they are more concerned with selling vehicles over preserving an image. Appreciative I learned clutch on a Massey Ferguson, but those quaint days are done and we have to cultivate the next round of morons to lead, even if things as scary as a spider can throw a wrench in those plans.
 
Gotta love how every thread at this forum either turns into a semantics pissing contest, abandoned, or full of misinformation.

Maybe that is why the front page threads get 3 days long in the tooth. Necros are immediately shut down, regardless of discussion merit. There is a mixture of the same members arguing P&N stuff in OT, they usually have high post counts to point out their yapping nature.

Looks like we are arguing semantics yet again, but with all the spelling errors here, why? My last foray into pro lawn equipment involved a clutch, which I am pretty sure is going to be weaned from that segment once suburbia reaches critical mass. Hydrostatic drive is DSG to this fight.
 
Just kidding a bit, have many relatives with real tractors and farms, have never owned one myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abaWREPO4o

calling a riding mower a tractor is pretty funny 🙂

Captain Howdy said:
Kubota and John Deere are to take moronic dollars from said entities. Clearly they are more concerned with selling vehicles over preserving an image. Appreciative I learned clutch on a Massey Ferguson, but those quaint days are done and we have to cultivate the next round of morons to lead, even if things as scary as a spider can throw a wrench in those plans.
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An old Massey Ferguson is a classic. +1
 
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Captain Howdy said:
Kubota and John Deere are to take moronic dollars from said entities. Clearly they are more concerned with selling vehicles over preserving an image. Appreciative I learned clutch on a Massey Ferguson, but those quaint days are done and we have to cultivate the next round of morons to lead, even if things as scary as a spider can throw a wrench in those plans.
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John Deere makes a lot of construction equipment too...but..."Friends don't let friends drive green equipment," has been a common saying for decades...😛

I've run some Massey-Ferguson equipment over the years. Always seemed like it was designed for farm use, not heavy construction.
 
Zenmervolt said:
:biggrin:😛

Eh, true, but "riding mowers" don't have a PTO. Lawn tractors have a single, front, PTO. Garden tractors have front and rear PTOs and have attachments like loader buckets and tillers.

For example, Garden Tractor: http://www.simplicitymfg.com/us/en/tractors/legacy-xl

😛

ZV
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Dang, 13k for the high end model, wow. You can get a low hour used real tractor with more power and more versatility for the same or even less.
 
I Saw OJ said:
Dang, 13k for the high end model, wow. You can get a low hour used real tractor with more power and more versatility for the same or even less.
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At that price, I would want it to come with a snow blower attachment too and maybe even wings so I can fly it around.
 
I Saw OJ said:
Dang, 13k for the high end model, wow. You can get a low hour used real tractor with more power and more versatility for the same or even less.
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Eh, then you're into much larger machines that can be physically too large for the tasks at hand. And, to be honest, that model is really a sub-compact utility tractor and not a "garden tractor" anymore. It's playing in the same arena as a Deere 1026, which runs around $14k but doesn't include a mowing deck.

(This is what I get for growing up in farm country... I'm non-ironically discussing the relative merits of tractor size classes...)

ZV
 
And could a discussion about garden tractors be complete without a mention of thè old Panzer tractors that used a Chrysler automotive rear end?
http://www.panzertractors.com/FAQPage.html

Back to the OP, I was going ask if the L110 had the ill-fated Briggs Intek engine, like my MIL's L120. It had an innovative air filter bypass....so dirt could chew up the internals at alarming rates.
But it looks like the l110 has a Kohler single.
 
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