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Re: 8n no spark


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Posted by Royse on June 23, 2013 at 19:31:20 from (69.36.49.151):

In Reply to: 8n no spark posted by Tom vertiz on June 23, 2013 at 07:22:13:

That tractor's been around for 65+/- years, you won't kill it.

Pull starting an N is near impossible unless you have added weight.

The rear end is so light it just slides along the ground on dirt.

You got your points set. Did you check the gap on all 4 lobes?

The front bushing in the distributor can get bad and make them wobble.

That wobble makes the points not fire on every cylinder.

Any side to side movement of the shaft is too much.

Battery negative or positive ground. Your starter won't care.

Your ignition won't really care either.

Your generator will work either way too, as long as it's polarized

that way. Nothing really to worry about there.

I would put it back the way it was (pos ground) just so you don't

have to mess with it in the future.

That would not affect the points, condenser, starting though.

More likely when it got changed around the battery connections

got cleaned up, made better connection and it ran better.

Could have been a big part of the problem all along!

When you don't have spark, do you still have voltage to the top

of the coil? I know you said you ran a jumper, just double checking.

Do you have a working ammeter in the dash?

If so, when you roll it over you should see that ammeter bounce.

It will discharge when the points are closed and go to zero when

they open. If it stops doing that, the points aren't opening and

closing properly.

Could be the wobble I mentioned, could be other things too.

Let us know what you find!


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