[Farmall] Farmall H Question

[szabelsk at gdls.com]

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