[AT] {AT}Make repairs or payments

[Bruce Fallon]

Quite often when I want to start some of my tractors with points I have to clean them.  If I crank and they don't fire that is the place to start.  Had to file the points on the grader the other day.  Same with the Moline when I want to start it.  The Allis Chalmers and the John Deere no problem. 
I put a Pertronics in the grader and it ran fine for a while, one day grading it stopped and I had to revert back to the points to make it run.  Put a Pertronics in the 54 Chevy pickup does just fine. Does start easier.  Also got one for the Motorhome but have not finished the installation only been 2 years now.   
Don't know how I ever got anything done before I retired. 

Bruce Fallon
Langley, WA 98260

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I had a problem similar to that but the point spring just got weak 
instead of breaking.  The tractor would start and idle just fine but if 
you tried to give it some gas it would die.  Put in new points and it 
ran fine.


On 1/29/2018 9:59 AM, Easley, Greg A. wrote:
> Electrics!  Always a nuisance.
>
> I have a Farmall C that I use for overseeding pasture ground.  It's a retired pulling tractor - gone through end to end mechanically -
> completely rewired, starter and generator rebuilt - everything that moves and a lot of stuff that doesn't has been repaired or
> replaced as required, but now it just sits in the barn gathering dust except for a couple days every winter when I get it out to
> top-dress the pastures.
>
> Saturday when I went to start it the dang thing would crank over just fine but it wouldn't hit a lick.  Rather than drag a bunch of tools
> out to the hay barn Pops helped me drag the tractor to my workshop.  The points were fouled the last time we needed to use it and
> while Pops was making a run to the parts store for a new set I took the old ones out, cleaned the contacts, and had it running by the
> time he got back with the new set.  I tossed the new points on the shelf and we went about our business.  Got the job done, parked
> it in the hay barn, and forgot about it until this weekend.
>
> That said, it made sense to look at the points first, and sure enough they were the problem.  But not the same problem as last time.
> This time the spring was snapped in two.  First time I can recall ever seeing that happen.  I grabbed the new set off the shelf, put them
> in, set the gap, and it was back to running like new.
>
> Got the pastures seeded and put it away until next year.
>
> Greg
>


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