Posted by Goose on June 05, 2015 at 19:01:51 from (70.198.33.209):
A year ago February, I bought an H Farmall for $400 on a consignment auction. I never could get it to run quite as smooth as it should. New points, condenser, spark plugs, distributor cap and plug wires, patched in a known good coil, had two different carbs on it, even replaced the intake gaskets and checked the valve lash. Nothing made any difference. So, I kinda put it on the back burner and decided I could always get $400 worth of parts out of it.
Today I pulled the distributor off of my M Farmall, housing and all, to clean it up, lube it, and replace the points and condenser. Started it up and it ran, but rough. My first hunch was correct, I'd screwed up and replaced the distributor with the drive gear off one cog. I got out the manual and replaced the distributor with the timing correct. The M then purred like it's supposed to.
Then lights came on. It dawned on me that when the M was running with the timing one cog off, it sounded just like that H I could never get to run right. The timing was the one thing I hadn't checked on the H. Popped the distributor off the H and put it back per the book with the timing correct and--voila! The H ran as smooth as it's supposed to, also.
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