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I bought a $1600+ Craftsman lawn tractor less than two years ago. I used it a month ago before going on a vacation. Today I tried starting it and got only a continuous clicking noise but the engine won't start. The battery's date is Oct. 2011. Could the problem be the battery? The clicking noise is not behind the seat near the battery but is under the hood. I'm a 62 y/o non-mechanically inclined female however I can remove/replace a battery and possibly a spark plug if that's likely the problem. Otherwise, I'll have to have a shop come pick it up. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
I charged the old battery and it works fine.
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The first 2 answers are very good and spot on as to what your problem is. You don't need to pay a shop for such an easy fix.
I think I would opt to jump it off with jumper cables first before buying a charger though. If it can be jump started and then you run it for a while to mow then it should hold a charge. If it doesn't hold a charge after that you can buy a charger as suggested or for about half the cost of a charger just get a new battery.
Here is a link to a bunch of videos you can look at to learn how easy it is to jump start your mower.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+jump+start+a+lawn+mower&oq=how+to+jump+start+a+&gs_l=youtube.1.1.0i10j0j0i10l2j0j0i10l5.1316.6384.0.8502.20.17.0.3.3.0.265.1336.16j0j1.17.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.JkZcxx6MwZI
Your battery should still be doing ok since it's only 2 years old but if it hasn't been charged regularly it's possible it's life has been shortened. Since you're at the 2 year mark I wouldn't spend the money on a charger at this point. However, it's a great idea to get a trickle charger to hook to it when not being used to keep the battery fresh. If the mower isn't going to be used but this sporadically a trickle charger will be a good buy. Then a battery will last you a long time.
Below are some links to trickle charges for you to see. You can get one for around $15 - $25 or so. Get an automatic one that monitors the battery and you can leave it connected all the time.
Here's a couple of cheap automatic chargers for example but there are lots out there.
http://www.techbatterysolutions.com/Deltran-Battery-Tender-Junior-12V-Charger-p/c01.htm?_vsrefdom=googlepla&gclid=CKzo5Mvtu7kCFU1k7AodGXgAgw&utm_source=googlepepla&utm_medium=adwords&gdftrk=gdfV23665_a_7c1669_a_7c7827_a_7cC01
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Buffalo-Tools-12-Volt-Automatic-Battery-Trickle-Charger-BFC12/100648177#.Uix1szakq1U
If you decide to get a trickle charger you can let it charge your old battery for a day or so and try to crank it. If it turns then but with not enough force to spin the engine enough to fire then you definitely need a new battery. Then you'll have a trickle charger to maintain the new one! But if it gets your old battery going then you'll be able to get some more life out of it before needing to replace it. A win win!
Good luck and I hope this is helpful!
The first 2 answers are very good and spot on as to what your problem is. You don't need to pay a shop for such an easy fix.
I think I would opt to jump it off with jumper cables first before buying a charger though. If it can be jump started and then you run it for a while to mow then it should hold a charge. If it doesn't hold a charge after that you can buy a charger as suggested or for about half the cost of a charger just get a new battery.
Here is a link to a bunch of videos you can look at to learn how easy it is to jump start your mower.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+jump+start+a+lawn+mower&oq=how+to+jump+start+a+&gs_l=youtube.1.1.0i10j0j0i10l2j0j0i10l5.1316.6384.0.8502.20.17.0.3.3.0.265.1336.16j0j1.17.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.JkZcxx6MwZI
Your battery should still be doing ok since it's only 2 years old but if it hasn't been charged regularly it's possible it's life has been shortened. Since you're at the 2 year mark I wouldn't spend the money on a charger at this point. However, it's a great idea to get a trickle charger to hook to it when not being used to keep the battery fresh. If the mower isn't going to be used but this sporadically a trickle charger will be a good buy. Then a battery will last you a long time.
Below are some links to trickle charges for you to see. You can get one for around $15 - $25 or so. Get an automatic one that monitors the battery and you can leave it connected all the time.
Here's a couple of cheap automatic chargers for example but there are lots out there.
http://www.techbatterysolutions.com/Deltran-Battery-Tender-Junior-12V-Charger-p/c01.htm?_vsrefdom=googlepla&gclid=CKzo5Mvtu7kCFU1k7AodGXgAgw&utm_source=googlepepla&utm_medium=adwords&gdftrk=gdfV23665_a_7c1669_a_7c7827_a_7cC01
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Buffalo-Tools-12-Volt-Automatic-Battery-Trickle-Charger-BFC12/100648177#.Uix1szakq1U
If you decide to get a trickle charger you can let it charge your old battery for a day or so and try to crank it. If it turns then but with not enough force to spin the engine enough to fire then you definitely need a new battery. Then you'll have a trickle charger to maintain the new one! But if it gets your old battery going then you'll be able to get some more life out of it before needing to replace it. A win win!
Good luck and I hope this is helpful!
Why do Warmistas, ignore the past?
Harvey Mus
No, no, we are not talking about the Holocene. I've whipped that dead horse enough.
Today I am talking about taxes, which artificially raise the price of fuels. Europe has paid artificially high prices for fuels for decades now. The thought process, I'm told, is that this will spur innovation, in alternative fuels. And spur inventions to save fuel as well.
So what do we have for innovations? We have hybrid electric cars, which still rely on dead dinosaurs. Electric cars, which have less range than comfortable hiking boots. And you still have to plug that sucker into a wall, and recharge it with a dead dinosaur.
And I'll be honest here. I can't afford to drop $30k on an electric go-cart. And I couldn't fit or haul my trade around in it anyway. And your little electric go cart, is only marginally better than a Mini Cooper, mileage wise.
Nuclear energy, Japan, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and a few others has demonstrated the short term dangers there. And the disposal of spent fuel cells is the real time bomb with nuclear energy. Co2 is a trifle compared to a spent fuel rod, with a halflife of 500,000 years or so.
Windmills are expensive, high maintenance, and not too terribly reliable. Plus they slaughter endangered species, and have been blamed for beaching whales. High frequency resonance or something...
Solar energy suffers from the same problems as wind. If it were as great as you make it sound, then why are states building $500 billion dollar nuclear plants? Surely solar towers would be cheaper.
We have fuel injection. But that doesn't really save fuel, does it?
The only real innovation, has been to put people into rinky dink go-carts, powered by lawn mower engines. Which is full circle to where the auto began.
But why do some of you, and you know who you are, insist that higher fuel taxes will solve anything?
30 years of artificially high fuel prices. And the best anyone has come up with are go-carts with electric motors?
I'm just not seeing the trade off here...
I never implied the tax money was going towards innovation. That's as ridiculous as claiming cigarette taxes are funding cancer treatment.
Newsweek and the UK Telegraph at one time, ran stories about offshore wind farms driving whales to shore. Both stories have disappeared, replaced by vigorous disclaimers.
I suspect a cover up by Big Wind.
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Popular Science has had some interesting pieces lately on "The Rebirth of the Internal Combustion Engine"
Here's a gallery..these are still concepts but if some work out, then what's not to like?
http://www.popsci.com/cars/gallery/2011-06/gallery-rebirth-internal-combustion-engine?image=0
And here's one that's interesting: Lasers could replace spark plugs in car engines - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13160950
From what I've read lately, some of these new high efficiency internal combustion engines have some serious power too. If we're going to throw money at something, I think we should concentrate on making what we know works even better.
Popular Science has had some interesting pieces lately on "The Rebirth of the Internal Combustion Engine"
Here's a gallery..these are still concepts but if some work out, then what's not to like?
http://www.popsci.com/cars/gallery/2011-06/gallery-rebirth-internal-combustion-engine?image=0
And here's one that's interesting: Lasers could replace spark plugs in car engines - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13160950
From what I've read lately, some of these new high efficiency internal combustion engines have some serious power too. If we're going to throw money at something, I think we should concentrate on making what we know works even better.
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