[Farmall] Farmall 340 Not starting

Wed Jul 26 21:02:19 PDT 2006

Folks,  Got it done.  Bigdog was a big help.  He helped me figure out it was
not the new coil.  I went into Case-IH and took the old coil and the old
condenser.  They checked the old condenser and it was bad.  They could not
check the coil but I went to a O'Reilly Auto parts and they checked it.  The
old coil seemed good.  So the original problem was probably the old
condenser. 

I had started out thinking bad condenser and had gotten on last Friday from
Case-IH.  When that did not work, I then case a coil from Case-IH on Monday.
When that did not work, I was baffled.

Now I checked according to what Bigdog told me and my test light would not
go out when it was connected between the + on the coil and the primary wire
side of the distributor, which indicates it is a problem in the distributor.
I thought I had a ground in there.  I took the points out and the new
condenser that I had gotten last Friday from Case-IH.  I checked the
condenser as they did at Case-IH and the new condenser was bad.  I had
gotten another one at Advance Auto today for $3+ just in case (versus the
Case-IH price ..since they sell the condenser only with the points).  

Well, next I put in the new condenser I got today and put everything back
together.  Turned over the tractor key and hit the starter (for about the
millionth time since I started trying to trace this all down) and she fired
right up.    

Don't know why the new condenser from Case-IH was bad, and it would have
been nice not to have purchased a coil.  I noticed all are cheaper from TSC
but don't know if the quality is different from Case-IH.  

Anyway, nice sound to hear the tractor run again.

Thanks to everyone for all the help and special thanks to Bigdog.

Larry H.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [Farmall] Farmall 340 Not starting

This is probably way out of line, but I once saw a problem where a friend
of 
mine had gapped the points to where the closed gap was set to the correct
gap 
 never allowing the points to close.

Clark
F20

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