Posted by The tractor vet on March 03, 2013 at 07:49:58 from (75.19.125.79):
In Reply to: 706 no spark at points posted by Kirk Affeldt on March 02, 2013 at 18:45:29:
Well , welcome to the new world order of junk parts . Over the years i have encountered about fifteen sets of points that PLUM DO NOT WORK. Don't care how you hold your mouth your tongue , stand on your head or how you try and clean them . I have pulled them out of there brand new box and found them corroded . Sometimes you can clean them with a fine emery cloth and they will work sometimes not. First time this happened to me was about twentyfive years ago on a International cub lowboy. Every spring i would make a service call to this widowed woman's place and tune her Cubby up for the mowing season . She only wanted OEM parts and i stopped by the I H dealer and got everything this time around . I got the battery out from her basement as that is where she wanted it stored over winter and put in the cub and fired it up to bring it out into the light and let it warm up and do the total service on it . IF fired up and ran perfect ( had it beem me i would not do this till it needed it ) But she wanted it totally serviced each spring. While the oil was draining i changed the plugs and points cap rotor and wires , cleaned out the sed.bowl and everything else . After i did the oil change i went to start it and no go . So off came the cap and like you no fire across the points . They would fire with a screw driver but not across the contacts. Pulled them out and looked them over and could not see why they would not , but i cleaned everything up and put them back in and same thing no fire , ran the points file across them and still nothing. Put the old points in and it fired up . Put the new points in and no fire . I went up the road a couple miles to the old Oliver dealer and got a set of Tisco points and put them in and it fired up . I took the Case I H points back to the dealer and got new set . They were fine . A couple weeks later by buddy who was the parts man at the Case I H dealer came to the shop one evening with a brand new set of Case I H points to put in his 450 and guess what they did not work either and he thought i was kidding him when i took the one set back. I asked him if he put them points back on the shelf that i brought back and if those were the same set , he no you saw me throw that set away and these just came in on this weeks stock order. SO you could varywell have a bad set of points.
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