It took a village to get my SMD to start on the gas side.

Marv · Jan 8, 2009

Thanks to those of you on YT that gave me suggestions on how to get my SMD to start on the gas side. The tractor is now purring like a kitten. This episode started when I decided to degrease a good running tractor. Well, it would not start after that. To make a long story short, we put on new plugs, points, distributor cap, adjusted the valve flapper in the intake manifold and replaced one faulty plug wire. Overhauled the carb. Previous owner switched the tractor from mag. to distributor. Found out that when the #1 piston is at TDC, rotor was pointing at the # 4 plug wire. Made ajuustments for that. Still would not start. This tractor is a 12 volt + ground. Switched the coil wires around to + to distributor. She fired right up. Once again, thanks to all that contributed. Marv

Janicholson · Jan 8, 2009

Good going. They are great units. JimN

Brownie 450 · Jan 9, 2009

Thanks for telling the final outcome. Good you got her going. We put a super C 6-volt coil on our 450 D back in 1959-60 when it had the picker on it. That was a cold-snowy- rotten winter & if we got 2 loads picked in a day, we were doing well. Anyway, we put the 6-volt coil on for extra spark & it's still on.

scotc · Jan 11, 2009

Old points-ignition Mopars had 2 contacts in the start position on the keyswitch, one bypassed the resistor for a hotter starting spark.

It took a village to get my SMD to start on the gas side.

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