[Farmall] Farmall H Question

[szabelsk at gdls.com]

Just to bring everybody up to date on my issue. I tracked the problem down 
to a broken wire in the electrical system. I figured it had to be 
something electrical so I started by checking the points, condenser, and 
the coil. Pulled out the old engine analyzer and everything checked out. 
Figured I'd check to see if I was getting voltage were it needed to be. 
Started to check for voltage at the coil. When I didn't find 12V at the 
coil, I disconnected the wire at the kill switch and connected it to the 
battery terminal side of the starter switch with a jumper wire made of a 
couple of alligator clips. Got 12V at the coil, hit the starter switch, 
and it started right up. Ran all day with the jumper wire in place and 
didn't have any issues.  When I was done I just removed the jumper wire. 
Had to work some other jobs during the week and didn't get around to 
looking for the problem until yesterday. 

Started by checking for voltage at every connection point along the entire 
12V circuit.  Checked for voltage, disconnected the wires and cleaned them 
up even if I found 12V, reconnected and checked again. When I got to the 
kill switch, I lost it. Disconnected the hot wire from the kill switch and 
started to clean the terminal. That's when the lug essentially came off in 
my hand. Crimped on a new lug, reconnected the wire and found 12V. 
Reconnected the wire from the coil to the other side of the kill switch, 
and had 12V at the coil.

Didn't bother to start the engine since I'm sure I've fixed the problem. 
Will be cutting grass this weekend, weather permitting, so I'll know for 
sure. But I'm pretty confident I've got it fixed.

Thanks to everybody that responded to the original e-mail. Lots of helpful 
suggestions, a few I'd forgotten about.

Carl Szabelski

The Borg Are Wrong, Resistance Is Not Futile ..... It's Voltage / Current