SgtMajHarper
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Hi gang, I need some help with an issue my Mule is having. It has always run like a champ, starts right up in subzero weather after being parked for months without running. Always no issues. Last 4th of July at the end of a parade while driving back to our staging / loading / loading area and it just stops dead. It started back up and drove a short distance and stopped a couple more times. It was warm out, maybe mid to high 80's and it had been running for @ an hour driving slow at parade speed. When it stopped, we were driving @ 25 mph for a couple of miles.
I had the summer off with shoulder surgery, followed in the fall by another, so no time to tinker with it. Now that its warmer, I was messing with it yesterday, prior to a car show next week that my other vehicles are going to and I had hopes for the Mule. I went out and it started right up, ran for @ 15 min. no issues. Today it started right up and I let it idle for @ 1/2 hr., ran like a singer sewing machine.
I went to drive it out and as soon as I press on the gas pedal it kills the motor. Starts right up, sounds good, kills the engine as soon as I press the gas pedal and it starts to move, the motor stalls. After @ 4-5 of these start /stop events, it doesn't want to start anymore.
I'm not the great detailed guy mechanic like many of you are here. I hop on them and ride them, put gas in them and pet them and talk to them once in a while (don't say I'm the only one). I'm hoping someone will have some insight for me to get this machine back on the road.
I had the summer off with shoulder surgery, followed in the fall by another, so no time to tinker with it. Now that its warmer, I was messing with it yesterday, prior to a car show next week that my other vehicles are going to and I had hopes for the Mule. I went out and it started right up, ran for @ 15 min. no issues. Today it started right up and I let it idle for @ 1/2 hr., ran like a singer sewing machine.
I went to drive it out and as soon as I press on the gas pedal it kills the motor. Starts right up, sounds good, kills the engine as soon as I press the gas pedal and it starts to move, the motor stalls. After @ 4-5 of these start /stop events, it doesn't want to start anymore.
I'm not the great detailed guy mechanic like many of you are here. I hop on them and ride them, put gas in them and pet them and talk to them once in a while (don't say I'm the only one). I'm hoping someone will have some insight for me to get this machine back on the road.