[AT] Cub problem

[Greg Hass]

In a nutshell, it won't start. I parked it about 3 weeks ago and 
everything was fine. A few days ago I went to move it to get to the 
brush hog and it wouldn't start. I checked the gas and it was empty. 
Started to pour some in and got wet feet, the rubber hose between the 
tank and inline filter had split. Fixed that and tried to start again 
and nothing. Had someone help tow it to the shop and tried to start it 
by towing, still nothing. Shot a little starting fluid in the air 
cleaner while cranking and nothing which tells me its electrical. This 
has magneto ignition (1949 model).  I cleaned out the distributor cap 
and took off the main coil cap which both looked ok ( IH mag). Today I 
took the mag off the tractor any filed the point and set to .013 as I 
found online. Put back on tractor, I 'm sure I did it right as it still 
won't start. The only problem I had was when I tried to put the rotor 
back on I had trouble getting the flat spot to line up with the shaft 
but I think it's right. My brother brought over some kind of tester you 
put between the wire and the plug. The light barely shows and it was 
even getting dark. I took one plug out (Champion D 15 Y) ; it was a 
little damp and the insulator was sort of brown but that wouldn't cause 
it to not start that suddenly. I have always swore if I had trouble I 
would try to find a battery ignition unit and replace the mag so I guess 
now I'm at that point. I think I might have an old mag from a cub power 
unit I could try, but as I get older I have less patience to try all 
this stuff. So, where do I go from here?

          Greg Hass