Farmall cub wiring 1949 with magneto

Was it suppose to be this way????? BOB MELVILLE where are you????? ?????

Your Cub originally had a magneto. At some point in it's life the mag's coil failed. Rather than replacing the mag coil, someone wired up a battery ignition coil in it's place. The system now uses the mag's breaker points to time the ignition coil primary, while the mag distributor continues to distribute the spark voltage from the coil secondary same as before.

Consequently the low voltage wiring should be just like for a distributor ignition, except with the low voltage wire from the coil terminating at the breaker points inside the old magneto instead of inside a distributor.

Dan:

Having a 6 volt Cub with a mag is not big deal and is very easy to rewire or straighten out the rats nest you have.

The manual server at the link below has the Blue Ribbon Service Manuals - GSS-1012 Electrical that has the diagram, the GSS-1411 Service Manual has the diagram and Cub FAQ's #2 has that information as well. You have to remember that the mag uses a cut out and not a regulator.

I am not too swift on the electrical stuff and I got it figured out, so if I can anybody can!

Hope this will help:

also Bob Melvilles stuff can be found at this url:
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