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

[ebony51 at frontiernet.net]

Folks

This morning I took off the spark plugs and look pretty carboned up and wet.  I checked the spark by placing the #1 spark plug on the engine block.  I got spark but looked kind of yellowish.

Interesting, I took off the rotor and distributor rotor looked like it had some oil on the inside.  I cleaned it off.  It would fire a bit.

My guess is weak spark.  I think I will run into town and get a condenser and points.  They are pretty cheap.

I suppose some chance coil is fried.  It has been converted to 12 volt but looks like there is resister in line.  I have another coil around here somewhere.

I will keep folks informed of what I discover.

What is they say, "Good judgment comes from experience.  Experience comes from a lot of bad judgment?"

Larry


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From: ebony51 at frontiernet.net
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Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 9:54:42 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [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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