8N wont start

Ennytime you've been fuxxing around, trying to start a hard to start engine, you stand an excellent chance in FLOODING yer sparkies. And even iff'n you just replaced yer sparkies, REPLACE'EM AGAIN!!! 'cuz you've FLOODED yer sparkies. How do I know? because FLOODED SPARKIES won't sparkle even on ether quick-start.

The ONLY cure for FLOODED sparkies is FIRE in a running engine. Once you gittchur engine running, you can "swap" 1-sparkie at a time, and let the hot engine clean yer flood fouled sparkie. Flooded sparkies are contaminated by INVISIBLE un-leaded gasoline deposits. This beats trying to dry them with a plumbers propane torch. Save yer cleaned and dry sparkies for the NEXT-TIME you flood yer engine. (and there will be a next-time)

As a reminder, we recommend AutoLite AL-437 sparkies. They don't foul as eazy on no-lead gasoline.

You write..... ."I was wondering if maybe the advance weights could have been stuck in the full advance position"..... .NO, because they are "spring-loaded" to RETRACT. They occasionally get hung-up on a TOO-LONG ignition points screw in a RETRACTED position which will still eazily start but will have NO POWER at higher operating rpms..... ...Dell, yer self-appointed sparkie-meister

I know, I know, I ain't cha brother.

Gassed plugs will stop the show.

I can't remember gased plugs prior to 1975 or so.

only 3 thangsw youy need to run these tractors.

Fuel, and spark at the right time.

Hard to screw up the time but it can be done.

You have gassed the heck out of your plugs.

If you have spark and gas, that is the next thang.

Sometrimes I dry the one on my 4 wheeler with a propane torch.

I was pissed one day and tried it with the cutting torch.

The, well part, that is supposed to be a flat piece is now a ball on that plug.

I will go back to the propane torch.

The only thang that cures them gassed plugs is time... or heat...

Conversely, if the timing is late, or otherwise "off", it should spit, snort, backfire, or SOMETHING.

If you are not gettin' even a backfire, and have spark and gas (and ether), it sounds to me like you have spark plugs that are shorted from being wet with gas, or carbon fouled. At any point in this fiasco have you tried new spark plugs?

But you do make a valid point about mucked-up distributor centrifugal advance weights. This is a problem usually something experienced at higher rpms but usually not at starting..... ...Dell, yer self-appointed sparkie-meister