[AT] IH B275 Diesel

[Gus]

Ron there has to be a wire to the first plug, take your ohm meter and ck. the plugs and you will see that there are two circuts.??.or contacks or leads or whatever.

-----Original Message-----
>From: rdhaskell at juno.com
>Sent: Dec 4, 2006 8:42 PM
>To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>Subject: Re: [AT] IH B275 Diesel
>
>Thanks Brett.  
>That makes complete sense of the weird wiring between the glow plugs. 
>There is no wire to the first glow plug, and the last one goes to ground.
> I freed up the switch to energize the plugs, now to check them again.  I
>think two are shot.  I will tear into the dash to see what is missing
>there.
>I have been working on the brakes trying to make enough friction to stop
>the beast.   Everything is polished smooth as a baby's butt.
>
>Ron Haskell
>rdhaskell at juno.com
>Riverside, California
>USA
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>On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:31:22 -0500 "Brett Phillips" <bphillip at shentel.net>
>writes:
>> Ron:
>>  Somewhere in my past, I think I remember hearing that the B-series 
>> tractors 
>> had the glow plugs wired in series.  Also, I believe that these 
>> tractors 
>> have a coil of resistance wire behind a screen that is mounted on 
>> the 
>> instrument panel.  This serves two purposes.  First it serves to 
>> drop the 
>> battery voltage another eight volts or so ((4 x 0.9) + 8) = 11.6V.  
>> Second, 
>> it is used as an indicator to show that the plugs are working.  I 
>> may be 
>> wrong on some of this, but the fellows over at the Yahoo IH B-series 
>> group 
>> can probably set you straight.  I've always liked the looks of those 
>> little 
>> tractors, they look to be handy and beefy for their size.  Let us 
>> know how 
>> it works out.
>> 
>> Brett Phillips
>> Strasburg, VA
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