Posted by mkirsch on February 28, 2008 at 10:55:44 from (64.80.108.53):
In Reply to: 450?????? posted by Dave Sherburne NY on February 28, 2008 at 07:40:06:
Hoss, the tractor is not a lemon, it's 50 years old. All the lemons went to the scrap yard 45 years ago. If anything, you have one of the really really good ones. Things are going to be worn, and things are going to break. That's the nature of working with vintage equipment.
Your problem definitely sounds like ignition, which is one of the easiest things to fix. Pull a spark plug and put the wire back on it. Lay the plug against the frame and crank the tractor briefly. You should see a bright blue spark about once a second, roughly at the same time you hear air WHOOSH out the open plug hole.
If you've got bright blue spark, the tractor jumped timing for some reason. Do what Andrew says, and line up the timing mark on the engine's front cover with the notch in the front pulley. Pull the distributor cap and see if the rotor is pointing to the cap tower that runs to the #1 cylinder. If not, rotate the engine over 1 full turn and check again.
Check to see if the rotor spins freely by hand. It should NOT. A little slop is okay, but if you can spin it around by hand, the gear drive in your distributor is shot.
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