[AT] AC B Mag question

[charliehill]

Meant to say I pulled the mag apart not the coil.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] AC B Mag question


>I have a Fairbanks Morse throttle governed 6 hp ZC engine.  When I bought 
>it
> the mag was not working properly.  The coils was appearantly dead and a 
> car
> coil had been wired into it to make it run.  I pulled the coil apart,
> emailed Neil and he told me what to do.  That was before I owned his book.
> I didn't see anything visably wrong with the mag but then I noticed
> something.  The wire that goes from the coil to the kill lug on the 
> outside
> of the mag was rubbing against the inside of the mag case and had rubbed
> through the insulation.  It was grounding out on the case just as if the
> kill switch was grounded out.  A new wire fixed it.  I wrote Neil back and
> in his usual brief way of writting he said "you were lucky".
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ivan Cousins" <ivancou at windstream.net>
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> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:20 PM
> Subject: [AT] AC B Mag question
>
>
>>     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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