Thanks for all the replys...The Magneto on the old Mans A is a WICO,...SPEC # HD 265 Serial #2-228611...The plate on the mag says so....So what do Yaw'l advised now, Should I buy points, condenser, roter,cap, so on, for the wico or try to find a H 4? I've found a place up north that sells new and rebuilt H4s....I think around $150 rebuil, over $300 NOS....bye the time I buy the parts I'll have over $50 in this one and that is if it doesn't need a coil, Talkin to a friend at the tractor graveyard He said Throw a distributor and coil at it. I've got the book HOW TO RESTORE TRACTOR MAGNETOS, book covers H4s good, wico hardly at all and not the same wico...Growin' up with a Ford Model A, First Lincoln 200 Weldin' machine I bought didn't have an electric starter, I have worked on Mags, I'm not afraid to get into one, Just don't want to put a lot of labor in a hopeless case. I feel I've got to get this one runnin' by spring for the old Man, I can take My 504 down to His place plow disc Subsoil, row it up with My Super A, He can keep it cultivated with His A. Gene is from IOWA....I'm From North Louisiana
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