[AJD] timing crash test.............

Bret Rochotte rochotte at bright.net
Tue Feb 15 17:51:23 PST 2005


Hello Nick

I feel your pain. I'll bet we all have similar stories, sorry about your
luck.

Bret

Bret and Wendy Rochotte
New Bremen, Ohio
rochotte at bright.net

-----Original Message-----
From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
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nick_solomon at infostations.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:30 PM
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Subject: [AJD] timing crash test.............


well I continued the work of the last make shift mechanic and re
soldered
the lead they had picked out of the coil, still wasent getting much of
anything, condensor tests fine. I have nobody here to help me pull start
it, and I could not think of one safe way to do it my self. so I pushed
the tractor away from the garage and was able to squeeze my truck by,
and
pulled the tractor (in neutral) to an area that was out of the way.
while I was out there I decided to give it one more shot, I opened the
pet
cocks and adjusted throttle and choke, stepped on the starter, it gave a
tremendous back fire AND STARTED, I had sometime while climbing on the
tractor pushed it into 6th gear and not noticed I could not get the
clutch
disengaged, could not turn in time and ran into the back bumper of my
truck, very hard, it put a dent the width of the front of the tractor
pushed clear to the sheet metal of the truck, only scratching the paint
and primer down to bare cast on the pedestal of the tractor. by that
time
I had gotten it out of gear. I am so pissed at my carelessness that I
could just spit. what if I had been standing next to the tractor pushing
on the starter, as I have done many times in the past, what if my fiance
had been there and gotten in front of the tractor. we learn from our
mistakes, but why do some of them have to be such gosh darn stupid ones.

well I shut it down to move my truck and assess the damamge and went to
start it again and couldent, Im back to little or no spark, checked into
coil again, coil still tests 0......... while it did run, it ran very
poor, lots of misfiring

somebody should take my truck and tractor away as a punishment.

Nick
sorry for venting about my stupidity



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