[AT] More Ford Jubilee Adventures

Bo Hinch bohinch at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 05:29:43 PDT 2015


You are correct Cecil , BUT , if you leave the switch on , it will ALL be
toasted again , which is what started the problems in the beginning .
Bo Hinch in S/W Louisiana

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
wrote:

> I spent nearly a day trying to get a forklift to run even though it
> would fire, but not run due to a condensor that was the wrong one.  I
> would find a point/condenser set.  Tractor supply has some or Oreilly's
> might get one.   If you put a Pertronix solid state ignition on it, your
> problems would be solved....
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
>
>
> On 8/2/2015 3:51 PM, Mogrits wrote:
> > I don't know how people who farm for a living trust employees with their
> > expensive equipment, as I manage to do enough harm to my equipment on my
> > own!
> >
> > I have a habit of, when finishing with my Jubilee, of closing the fuel
> > valve and letting the tractor exhaust the fuel in the bowl and line.
> While
> > I wait for it to stop I'm usually putting up gloves, the seat cushion or
> in
> > general doing something else like looking for a cold beverage. I can get
> > distracted before is stops.
> >
> > So when I went to use it today after not using for a couple months I
> > realized the battery was dead and I'd left the key on. So I connect the
> > charger and do something else for a while and come back and try to start
> > it. No fire. The coil meanwhile is hot as hades. I pull a plug and ground
> > it and no spark. By this time the coil is too hot to touch so I figure
> the
> > ignition circuit fried the coil and I went to O Reillys (closest to me)
> and
> > got a coil that crossed to the one I took out. Put it in and still no
> > spark. I pull the dizzy cap and cleaned the points- still nothing. I'm
> > thinking the key screw-up also got the condenser so I rummage my "stuff"
> > and find one from my my MGB. It is less than half the size but the
> tractor
> > and MGB use the same coil and are both 4 bangers so I figure what the
> heck.
> > Put it in and it did fire but will not run.
> >
> > What do you guys think? Will putting in the right condenser get it
> running
> > again or is it likely something else as well? I have no experience
> swapping
> > parts from cars to tractors and have no idea how condensers are measured
> > other than they are both 12v vehicles and use the same coil. Any
> > speculation welcomed.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Warren
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