[AT] MF 50

Phil Auten pga2 at BasicISP.net
Thu May 20 14:54:17 PDT 2010


Timing gear on the cam is stripped. probably in one spot. When the 
bad spot meets up
with the other gear, the cam stops turning and thus so does the dist.
Been there, done that. More than once.

Phil

At 12:57 PM 5/20/2010, you wrote:
>I have a good yard tractor MF 50 , or was good to me but, the 
>distributor rotor does not turn. I took it out, could not feel 
>anything turning on the dist shaft so that seems ok, gear looks 
>good...hat to ask..is it possible the cam gear driving the 
>distributor is bad?? I put it back in after timing it DTC #1 on fire 
>and hit the starter--tried to start then backfired. With the 
>distributor in (yes, it is all the way down and locked) I could not 
>turn the rotor. But, when I hit the starter the rotor does not turn? 
>and weird..
>Wayne
>
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