[Farmall] Farmall H Question

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Have you checked to see if there is something floating in the sediment bulb
or near the drain hole in the fuel tank that comes and goes to obstruct
fuel supply?  A thorough cleaning of the fuel system might be in order.


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:51 AM, <szabelsk at gdls.com> wrote:

> Looking for some input to an issue regarding my H.
>
> Lately the tractor has been dying after running for a while. Sometimes it
> runs for hours, and sometimes just a few minutes. Checked the fuel, and
> spark, both seem to be OK. Took the carb off and verified that the float
> wasn't sticking. Had spark at the distributor.
>
> I've cranked it to the point that it became flooded and nothing. Let it
> sit for a few hours and I can get it started. Saturday it started up and
> just about the time I was going to put it in gear, it idled way down to
> the point where I thought it would stall, and them came back up, and then
> it idled down again. This went on for a few minutes. It was if the
> governor was having issues with maintaining proper rpm and was just
> hunting up and down.
>
> Before I go and tear into the governor, does anybody have any thoughts on
> what else I might want to look at. I know that the condenser can cause
> thing like the engine to quit after running a while, but would it cause
> the governor to hunt up and down? The coil, points, and condenser are only
> about a year old. I know that doesn't mean that they aren't bad, but don't
> ant to go and replace them if there's something else I can check before
> doing so.
>
>
> Carl Szabelski
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