When the engine quits check for fire to your plugs if you have fire disconnect the gas line at the carburetor and check the flow from the tank and catch the gas in a clean container.
If the flow looks ok remove the tube fitting at the carburetor and look for a screen behind the tube fitting that may be plugged. No engine will start at 180 degrees out of time.
REmove No1 sparkplug near the radiator and bring that piston to TDC on the compression stroke. You hold your thumb over the plug hole while a helper slowly cranks the engine. Once you feel pressure against your thumb drop a long plastic straw on top of the piston. Have the helper to keep slowly cranking the engine as you watch the straw rise. When the straw quits rising your No1 piston should be at TDC on the compression stroke. Remove the distributor cap and see where your rotor is pointing. It should be at the No1 plug tower. If it's there your engine is in time. Hal
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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