[AT] AC B Mag question

[Indiana Robinson]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Ivan Cousins <ivancou at windstream.net> wrote:
>     My brothers is one of these ran when parked , sat for the last year now
> . I picked up points and condensor while I was in Portland so I'm assuming
> that is not the problem .  But it still wont fire .
> He called me yesterday and said there are two wires coming from the coil
> ,thought maybe one was a ground  and the other went to the points . So he
> wired it that way and nothing .  He thought maybe he didnt have the points
> gapped right but at that point he was fed up with it and quit .
>  Ok it has a Wico C mag  , and odd ball for that tractor but it did work .
> Anyone familiar with that mag , able to give me a few hints .
>  Herb , I know its the right color for you .
>
>  Next question ,is there a book available that gets into the down and dirty
> on that particular mag  ?   I have one for my Farmall , and do have Neil
> Yerrigans book . Come to think of it I need to find it and flip thru it .
> My problem is its 45 miles away and I cant just run down there and back so I
> just cant run over after work . Looks like a road trip this weekend .   The
> question of two wires is what has me .  Thanks, Ivan

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Hi Ivan:
Just a loose thought here. My Allis C now has a complete distributor
from a WD, if I am recalling right, including the right angle drive.
When we first got it we assumed it had a mag since it looked like a
mag. It was a Fairbanks Morse distributor, not a mag. It had an
internal coil that we could not find any where back then so that is
why we changed it over. It had always ran OK before the coil failed
and we used it for several years before we discovered it was a battery
distributor.  :-) I understand that you can get those coils again now?
At one point "somebody" told us that due to the war and shortages just
after it (mine is a 1946) that all sorts of different systems got used
depending upon what they could buy. I don't know how true that
statement is but I do know that I have looked at them for years and
have not noticed a FB dist. just like that on one.
Good luck


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Francis Robinson
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Central Indiana USA
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