[Farmall] International A died (and I am baffled)

[szabelsk at gdls.com]

Larry,

Check the spark plug and coil wires. I had a similar instance last year 
with my Cub. I was mowing and it suddenly started to labor, to the point 
where I had to raise the mower so that I wasn't cutting the grass. I 
stopped to see if maybe something was wrapped around the mower blades 
loading it down. Didn't find anything so decided to continue mowing hoping 
things would clear up. I had a hard time starting, and once I got it going 
it was running rough and had no power. Noticed a lot of carbon coming out 
of the exhaust so I pulled the plugs and cleaned them up. It started right 
up after that, but just didn't seem to be running right. I went back to 
mowing and in a few minutes it was laboring again. Pulled the plugs and 
they were dirty again. Figured something had to be wrong with the ignition 
system so I started to check it out and noticed that one of the spark plug 
wires seemed to be sitting on the distributor cap a little differently 
than the other. Pushed it in and the problem went away. The plug must have 
come loose and backed off enough that one of the cylinders wasn't firing. 
That would explain the loss of power and why the plugs got so dirty. After 
a while I remembered that I had a similar problem when I first got the Cub 
and it was the same thing, one of the spark plug wires backed off of the 
distributor cap.


Carl Szabelski





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[Farmall] International A died (and I am baffled)






I was mowing with my International A today.  It was missing and then it 
finally quit.  My first instinct was something plugging the gas line.  I 
took off the sediment bulb and cleaned it.  Nothing.  I took off the gas 
line from the sediment builb to the carb and gas was getting through and 
the strainer was not clogged.  I took off the carb and sprayed some carb 
cleaner in it.  Still would start.  I sprayed some starter fluid in the 
air cleaner and the tractor started but barely.  Hardly ran and then very 
low idle and just for maybe 30 second.

Any suggestions.  I figure it got to be gas or electrical, and I thought 
gas first.  Kind of ran out of ideas regarding gas but maybe I missed 
something. Got dark and I quite mesing with it this evening.

Thank 

Larry Hardesty 
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