[Farmall] Farmall Digest, Vol 93, Issue 9

[Mike Sloane]

If you were in this area, I would suspect the problem I had with a 
Farmall 340 this summer: what I thought was clean gas in the tank turned 
out to be gas with a LOT of water in it. The result was exactly the same 
problem. After driving myself nuts with rebuilding the carburetor 
(several times), compression checks, spark testing, and all the other 
stuff, I finally drained the tank and put it fresh gas. It fired right 
up and ran fine. Apparently the E10 gas can absorb a lot of water, and 
it won't separate out, even when the outside temperature drops into the 
single digits.

But I don't think that you would normally have the kind of moisture in 
Tuscon that we get in the Northeast. But you might want to try some 
fresh gas anyway.

Mike

On 1/29/2012 9:00 AM, Rosenberg Philip G. wrote:
> I have a Farmall Super A that wont start.
>
> I have a spark from the magneto, and I have set the magneto to fire
> on cylinder #1 aligned with the distributor.
>
> I have gas, I have even used starting fluid and occasionally I get a
> pop from one of the cylinders.
>
> This is very frustrating.
>
> Philip, Tucson AZ