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Chris
07-12-2004 17:41:41
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This will be a little long so I'm sorry but I need some help getting my grandpa's 1958 TO-35 Deluxe working again. Last weekend end I put on a new cap, rotor, plugs, wires, coil, battery, engine oil, gear oil, oil filter, re-wired it, etc.. (Grandpa converted the tractor to 12 Volts at some point in time if thats of concern). I began to shred the first 65 acres at his farm when the tractor began to act up. It tractor started good and ran well with no load, but as soon a i dropped the bush hog and began cutting the grass, the tractor began to run really rough and not cut very well. I would put in the clutch, let the RPM's pick back up and and try to continue. This went on all day, eventully the tractor just had very little power. The tractor was also consistently backfiring (more of a loud popping) out of the air cleaner tube, to a point where oil from the oil bath air cleaner was comming out the top. I stopped and rechecked the gap on the new points I put in and they were still between .022 and .025". I then loosened the bolt that holds the distributor shaft and turned it until I could hear the idel change. I rotated it about 20 degrees counter clockwise and the backfiring stopped, but the engine didn't sound as strong. I continued to shread but still had very little power. The next day, the tractor started running very well for the first few minutes then it began to act as if it was running out of gas or the timming was drastically changing. I would have to stop, put in the clutch and wait for the RPM's to pick back up. Sometimes that didn't even help and the engine would die and I would have to let it sit for 5 - 10 minutes before it would start again. When it did start, it would run REALLY strong for about 45 seconds and then start to cut out, hesistate, miss and eventuly die. I got frustrated and quit shreadding. I bought a carb kit but have not put it on yet. I'm pretty sure its a fuel or ingition problem but don't know which. After I rebuild the card hopefully I will know. I looked for timing marks on the flywheel but couldn't find any (I do have a timming light) but what would be the correct timming if it has marks?? Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. I had an old truck at one point in time that did something similar, where it would run fine and then start to run rough and die. The problem was the key-way on the crank shaft got wore out and had alot of slop in it, which translated to the timing gears. This lead to a condition where my timming was constantly changing. Does this tractor have timing gears, belt or chain. If any, do these need to be replaced? My grandpa recently passed away and this has been his light duty tractor for years on his 260 acres. However, I don't ever seam to recall him having troubel with it, nor did he ever do much preventive maintenance on it. I guess the spirit of the tractor may have went when he did. I would really like to get this thing running because I need to keep is farm looking good so my parents don't decide to sell it and I know this tractor has years of good work left in it. I have lots of fond memories of the farm and tractor and don't want to loose them now. Thanks, Chris the Grandson
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