Solved it..... But here's what I did first (after all the stuff in the first post)...
Put a voltmeter on the supply side of the coil. Ran the tractor until it did it's hiccup/quit thing. Stared at the voltmeter looking for a dropoff. Stayed at 12 volts the whole time. (Had a jumper wire ready to try to see if it might be a bad ignition switch, as suggested above). Finally told myself (for the eleventeenth time) that it is not electrical and went over to the fuel side again. The only thing I had not tried was rebuilding the carb (no kit in hand)... But I had already taken the Zenith apart and cleaned it thoroughly (without adjusting anything other than the idle mixture screw)... Looked up the float setting for a Zenith in my Allis Chalmers service manual (because I have none for a Farmall)... Set the float just a tick higher than it had been. Fired her up and went out with it. Ran the cultivator more than a mile with no problem at all. Am going to get a carb kit and install it for good measure. My supposition is a combination of a slightly low fuel bowl level coupled with the crummy gas we are being sold these days. Thanks for the ideas. I really was scratching my head, and that says a lot. Thanks all! Jeff
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