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Posted by Dale on June 20, 2004 at 00:43:09 from (165.247.215.20):
In Reply to: Starting old H posted by nick on June 19, 2004 at 16:10:14:
Nick: When I am going to try to start an old tractor like your H, I replace all of the ignition parts such as: points, plugs, rotor, cap and wires in order to give the old girl every advantage that I can. Make sure that the timing is on as CNKS suggested. When you are at TDC the rotor in the mag should be pointing at No.1 position on the cap which should be labeled on the cap with a 1. How-ever some after-market caps don't have it. If it is an IH original replica it will have it. The rotor will be pointing at about the one o'clock position. You might want to do a compression test. It should have 110 to 125 lbs. compression. My partner and I are just finishing up restoring a Farmall M. It would "pop" but not run. It had no compression when we checked it. We pulled the rods and pistons and found the rings to be seized in the piston grooves. We pulled the old rings, cleaned the pistons and grooves, checked the dimensions against the specifications, installed new rings and it ran. You might also pull each plug wire one at a time, pull back the rubber boot and make sure you have fire at the plugs. Our Farmall M ran, but it didn't run right. We discovered that one of the new plugs was defective. Don't give up, the H is a great tractor. Dale
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