By way of encouragement, I went through a longer-than-it-should-have-taken restoration of a BN, a family tractor. The delays were all work conflicts. Just to keep the story short, I rebuilt the motor in the spring of 2002 and it was spring of '07 when I finally had her ready to fire up. Maintained it during that time by pulling the plugs and giving a few swift whirls of the crank, adding a little oil on top of the pistons every couple of months.
Came time to start it after having everything painted. Really just the chassis and radiator, not at all ready to drive. I hadn't heard the old girl runnin' in twenty years. I kid you not, third pull of the crank, she fired and ran. The occasion was generally regarded as sufficiently momentous to warrant the ceremonious consumption of two fingers of Dalwhinnie, and the rest of the evening was spent dialing in the carb and governor.
Honest, if you've got your mag timed up right and everything else is in order, it oughta be as simple as that.
On another note, one of the last sticking points on my BN was that the guide bracket for the starter rod had gone missing. I'd been hearing about a fella just about a hundred miles down the road in Jonesboro, ME that lines up a bunch of letter series and numbered Farmalls (up to a 450) out along US Rte. 1. Drove down there one fine morning to look 'em over, thinkin' especially to eyeball one of those brackets. My heart got pumpin' when I saw the old A in the lineup. Got there, and it was like yours, no place for a starter motor and the mechanical ground for the mag. Nice to see and look over for the differences, but not a bit of help for my problem!
Good luck with yours! Let us know how you make out gettin' her goin'.
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