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distributor discoveries and their meanings?

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ratface

01-02-2005 15:46:46

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Spent saturday with two front mount distributors on the table. One I bought from ebay and the other was off the tractor. Discovered a small nail in the ebay distributor bent in the centrifigul weights. Is there any reason someone would wedge a nail in there? Was it performing a funtion or did it just fall in there and got caught up by the weights. These weights are now in the tractor and seem to be performing fine. The second thing I found is my old distributor was missing the spring retainer. How would this affect performance, the tractor had very little power under load with the old distributor. I manged to make one good distributor from both and now it seems to run much better, had no trouble climbing to the top of the pasture hill which used to be difficult. weird thing it has changed the sound of the tractor running to faster and smoother and has also diminished my smoking problem considerably. Can new weights and retainer produce all these changes?

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John From Ferndale

01-02-2005 19:23:53

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Re: distributor discoveries and their meanings? in reply to ratface, 01-02-2005 15:46:46

Do yourself a favor and pick up a repair kit (Part No: 9N12187) for about $70. There are tabs on the weight that have to slide freely to give the mechanical advance. Worned parts could be a problem. I"ve replaced two of them in past years and it is real nice to have full power when you do. I"m not sure what your"re supposed to use for lube on them, I used wheel bearing grease ("cause that"s what I had lots of).
Good Luck!
John From Ferndale (WA)

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JerryU

01-03-2005 04:02:15

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Re: distributor discoveries and their meanings? in reply to John From Ferndale, 01-02-2005 19:23:53

I have been working on my 9N. First I ordered a new set of weights. Got TISCO weights and had trouble getting it timed--sees the lobes and the placement of the rotor are a little off. Had to grind the slot on the side of the distributor.

Still had trouble--not happy with performance and bought a new after market distributor--TISCO-same problem to about the same degree.

Not sure why two sets of weights are off. Without the benefit of timing marks you are kind of at a loss. I am going to pull the head when it gets warm and layout some timing marks and be done with it--bottom line is you may have problems with the weights and cam if you cannot get it statically timed.

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rasputen

01-03-2005 18:50:20

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Re: distributor discoveries and their meanings? in reply to JerryU, 01-03-2005 04:02:15

I have always timed the dist by ear. Do this on my 641 (same as 8N sidemount) and found it was off from the marks I had made.

When I got it something was funky cause the cap didn't line up with the clips. Took it all apart & got the plate back in correct. Timed it by rotating the dist back n forth till it ran good at idle & under load & at full speed.

Played with my 8N FMD dist timing after EI convertsion buy using a LONG screwdriver from the left side while running (no blood was spilled)couldn't see any advantage so ended up back at static 0* as suggested by Pertronics.
Runs great...but as usual I had to tinker. *<80)>

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Joe (IN)

01-02-2005 18:56:36

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Re: distributor discoveries and their meanings? in reply to ratface, 01-02-2005 15:46:46

Absolutely. Proper spark timing is critical in ANY engine. Whatever knucklehead jammed that nail into the weights was dinking with something he didn"t understand. Without a functioning advance mechanism, your engine will be a dog.

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