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

[Bus Driver]

Pretty good writing from a man who could easily have died. Hey, let's be
careful out there. I flipped an M JD backward in 1974- one bruised elbow.
Welcome to the club, brother.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nick_solomon at infostations.com>
To: <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:29 PM
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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