Yes. That's the coil wire. Your procedure sounds correct if the piece of metal was grounded to the tractor. Although the gap you mentioned might be too much.
I suspect you may be overthinking this thing. It was running fine a couple weeks ago. My guess would be that it's a little flooded.
These old engines have funny little quirks about starting. Sometimes you need to give them a little more choke, sometimes a little less. Sometimes a little more throttle, sometimes a little less. When you've owned it for a while you'll know what it takes, but you will have gained that knowledge from flooding it and having to get it going again.
By now the spark plugs are probably pretty wet, which will make it even harder to start. Do you know how to start a vehicle by rolling it down a hill or being towed and letting the clutch out while in gear with the switch on? I realize you're a young guy, and may not have learned how to do this since most vehicles nowadays have automatic transmission. Back in the day, when people were too cheap to go buy a new battery, we just parked our car on a hill to get it going until payday.
If you're not interested in starting it this way, you'll probably need to pick up a new set of plugs, put a battery charger on it and crank away until it starts. It's not good for the starter, but you do what you gotta do.
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Today's Featured Article - Tuning-Up Your Tractor: Plugs & Compression Testing - by Curtis Von Fange. The engine seems to run rough. In the exhaust you can hear an occasion 'poofing' sound like somethings not firing on all cylinders. Under loaded conditions the tractor seems to lack power and it belches black smoke out of the exhaust. For some reason it just doesn't want to start up without cranking and cranking the starter. All these conditions can be signals that your unit is in need of a tune up. Ok, so what is involved in a tune up? You say, swap plugs and file the points....now tha
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