[Farmall] distributor cap 'H'

[Jim Becker]

Also worth mentioning that a '41 H would have originally had a magneto.  The 
magneto cap is different than the battery ignition cap.  Know which you have 
before buying parts.  Same sources apply.
Jim Becker

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Sloane
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 4:11 PM
To: Farmall/IHC mailing list
Subject: Re: [Farmall] distributor cap 'H'

The easiest place for those items is your local NAPA affiliated auto
parts store. That cap was used on most IH 4 cylinder (gas) tractors from
about 1939 on. For the wires, just buy a generic "four cylinder" kit
that has solid copper core wires and make them up using the existing
wires for models.

If you don't have a NAPA store near you, there are dozens of on-line
vendors out there. Aside from NAPA, the next best choice is a Case IH
dealer. I happen to like dealing with I. Hoober (www.hoober.com> and
Carter & Gruenwald <www.gnco.com> Both will ship UPS the next day if you
give them plastic. Those three will be the best quality, but you will
pay a little more. Unfortunately, a lot of electrical parts for tractors
are being imported from the "third world" these days, and I have found
the quality to be marginal at best.

I guess I should note that there were two different distributors used on
some of the older H and M tractors - IH and Prestolite. The IH
distributor was the most common. Having a parts manual for the tractor
is a big help when ordering parts.

Mike



On 9/28/2011 4:00 PM, BeebyNVTEC at aol.com wrote:
> Please does anyone know of a supplier for a distributor cap for my 1941
> farmall 'H' also a set of spark plugs?.  Thanks for any help.
> Beebynvtec at aol.com
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