Posted by redforlife on April 18, 2023 at 20:44:09 from (174.213.213.164):
In Reply to: Magneto replacement posted by tomturkey on April 18, 2023 at 14:05:50:
Since magnetos make thier own juice, on top of creating it into a spark and delivering it to the spark plugs as a distributor does, there is more to a mag than a distributor. Doesn't make one dang bit of difference until the day one or the other don't work right. When that happens, mags are more confusing and complicated because there is more to them than a distributor. People learned this after a distributors came out. How much simpler they were to detect and fix problems. With a distributor, you know you have juice if the battery is up. On a mag, you don't really know that if a problem arises.
Mags were the prelude. And many tractors in that era that came out with battery start, were also hand crank startable. Which meant that the tractor could be started by way of hand crank even if the battery was completely dead (IF equiped with a mag). So some people preferred mags for this reason. Especially in the days when people really weren't equiped with battery chargers, extension cords, electrical outlets everywhere, and or jumper cables. Why have all that, when you can just have a magneto?? Alot of people thought this way.
People had thier own preferences for both mag and distributors. What fit somebody's liking, might not fit somebody else's.
If you do not understand mags, afraid to hand crank start, and don't mind having a dead tractor if the battery itself is dead, then maybe you should convert it.
I personally wouldn't do anything unless I ran into problems. And even then, I wouldn't convert to a distributor just because other people have, if I myself personally prefered a mag. Which I somewhat do. Especially on something that CAN be started by hand crank.
Some people AREN'T into the hand cranking bit. I for one am. But it's not for everyone. Some people have the nack for it. Others never ever catch on, and just continue to break arms and knock out teeth if they continue with it.
You kind of got to be a little bit old school, and somewhat of a mechanic to be a hand cranker. If your not that, you'd probably be better suited to just stick to the push button start. And a mag is not required fir that situation.
It's really one of those deals, to each thier own.
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