[AT] Troubleshooting no start

[CEE VILL]

Not quite so.  The change from the front distributor to the side unit came 
with the new design engine in the 1949's.  A few million Ford products 
between 1949 and 1953 had no starting problem.  I think I and my friends 
owned about half of them, one by one.  I suspect your distributor may have 
just been worn out from lots of use.  Back in those days, dealers and others 
often cranked speedometers back on used cars, so unless you knew the car 
since new, who knows?
Just an opinion.

Charlie V.


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>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:02:32 -0500
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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>
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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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>
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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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