[AT] Ford 1841 fuel problem

Cecil Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Wed Jul 20 16:44:39 PDT 2011


Lew
I had a forklift doing the same thing, bought it at a sale, got it home and 
it would not start to get off the truck.  It was also raining at the time.. 
I worked with it i the rain for about 3 hours, run about 30 seconds with the 
choke, take off choke and it would not run.  Finally left the choke on to 
unload it and found it still only ran about 30 seconds.  Robbed a condensor 
out of another distributor and it ran fine.  It sat inside about 2 months 
before I started it again and went thru the same thing..  This time changed 
the condensor and it ran fine.  A rich mixture will ignite much easier than 
a lean one..

Cecil in OKla


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lew Best" <lew at lewslittlefarm.com>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Ford 1841 fuel problem


>I just ordered a carb kit at Napa; amazingly it'll be in after 8 am
> tomorrow!  :)  I have plenty of extra ignition parts & that low pressure
> fuel pump that I can temporarily rob off running machines if the carb 
> don't
> cure it & I can't find a vacuum leak.
>
> Lew near Waco, TX
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> I would agree except that the tractor will run with the choke pulled out.
> Richer fuel mix shouldn't help a poor spark do it's job.  I chased a 
> similar
>
> but intermittent problem a few years back and it
> did turn out to be fire.  After I replaced almost everything in the 
> ignition
>
> system I finally found the problem.  The small wire from the coil to the
> points was bad, partially broken inside the wire jacket.
>
>
>
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