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Ok, guys here it is!!! I had a lot of trouble getting my 8N/9N to run and keep running, sometimes it would start run for a little while then shutdown. Sometimes it just plain old would not start. I tore the ignition system apart put it back on, same old thing. Sometimes good things happened, sometimes nothing. I did notice that the good usually happened after I tore the ignition system apart. I mean it would sometimes start, run for awhile . . . usually just long enough to get it about a quarter mile from the barn . . . and bingo, stop like I had shot her with a gun. (I was ready to do that a couple of times). Finally, I tore the ignition system apart and started looking at everything very closely. Here is what I found. My tractor has the front mounted distributor. The coil is compression mounted with the bail to hold it in place. That darn coil was the source of all my trouble. What happens is . . . the spring that extends from the underside of the coil and makes contact with the screw head inside the distributor. I had always been very careful not to disturb the spring for fear that I would break it off. Well, the darn spring, over the long period that it has been on the tractor, has gotten hot and lost it's spring. So when the coil was placed back on the distributor there was an air gap between the end of the spring and the screw head it is supposed to come in contact with. My fix was to take a wire brush to the spring. Very carefully remove all the corrosion on the spring. Pull it out, so that it extends far enough so that when you set the coil on the distributor there is some obvious compression of the spring into the screw head. There is one more compression electrical connection on the coil too. Make sure that both of the connections are good and solid. No connections on these two contact points and you get no electrcial connection between the coil and the distributor, therefore no spark to the plugs. Good luck Sincerely
George
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