[Farmall] It's Battery Time

[Roger Moffat]

On Jul 1, 2008, at 1:59 PM, John Gustafson wrote:

> For what its worth, stay with the 12 volt battery. I would take the  
> time
> though to try and get the alternator (most 12 V  generators were in  
> fact
> alternators) You won't hurt the starter motor unles you really sit  
> there and
> grind on it and overheat it.  Generally, they spin so fast with 12 V  
> that
> even a cranky engine fires quickly.

Thanks to all for the thoughts on this.

The 12 Volt battery is the way forward for now, and if I can pick up  
one of those trickle chargers that would be the way to go for now.

When I get a chance I'll look at getting the 12V generator back in  
action by moving it forward so the pulleys line up and the belt will  
stay on.

The electronic ignitions seem like more than I need to spend too.

Apart from the battery, the main problem I have with it which I've  
written about before is that if the Cub sits too long - numbers of  
weeks - then when started it won't build oil pressure, and I've had to  
resort to taking the top off the filter and filling it from there with  
what seems like a trillion pumps on the oil can to fill the filter  
housing and hope some of it runs back to the pump to seal it up so it  
will prime. I will at some stage take the oil pan off it and check  
that the pickup etc isn't loose and so causing a problem of any sort.

Again Thanks for the ideas.

Roger