[AT] Troubleshooting no start

[Richard Fink Sr]

Larry
No should be FORD For-Ordinary-Rough- Drivers.
R Fink


At 05:17 PM 9/28/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>At the risk of starting something that we really shouldn't ----
>
>FORD -- Found On Road, Dead!
>
>Larry
>
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>Dean,
>This sounds very much like my first car, a '53 Mercury with the flathead
>V8.
>You could roll start it very easily, but it wouldn't start worth a plug
>nickel
>using the starter. Even jumping it with 12V wouldn't help. I finally
>broke
>down and took it to the garage we used and they fixed it by rebuilding
>the
>distributor. Seems that when Ford changed from the front mounted
>distributor
>to the "normal" looking type, all kinds of starting problems like this
>cropped
>up. It's probably where Ford got the "Fix Or Repair Daily" reputation.
>Check the distributor shaft for wobble and end play. That's my 2¢ worth.
>Let
>us know what you find.
>
>Phil
>
>
>
>
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> >From    : Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
>Sent    : Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:02:22 -0400
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> >Thanks for the various suggestions, folks, I'll give them all a try.  I
>haven't checked compression on it yet but will try to do so today.
>
>The part that stumps me is what has changed, since the tractor always
>started easily.  It's had various problems with rotten belts, old
>wiring,
>and an improperly hooked up regulator, which I've slowly been working
>on,
>but even then it would start right up.  Wouldn't charge and the lights
>wouldn't work, but it would start.
>
>I did switch it back to a 6V battery, instead of using the 8V battery
>that
>had been in it when I bought it.  I've made sure all the cables and
>connections are good and figured that since I had plenty of cranking
>power
>the 6V battery would be fine.  But could that higher voltage have been
>compensating for low spark or low compression somehow?
>
>Dean Vinson
>Dayton, Ohio
>www.vinsonfarm.net
>
>
>
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>You have flooded the engine it could be do to low compression or low
>spark
>or bad plugs not firing enough. Try again in the morning to se if that
>helps.
>You can take the plugs out blow air in the cylinders and the plugs and
>try
>that.  But I would do a compression check to make sure.
>Walt Davies
>
>I assume now that you were pulling the choke out that could be the
>reason
>for the overload of fuel in the carb.
>
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