tisco plug wires

Dennisn715 · Mar 21, 2012

Bought a pair of tisco plug wires and cap from farm&fleet the ones you have to cut and put together yourself. Put them on my 706 started it up and it looked like I lit a sparkler they were arching between wires and head and on top of the new cap. Can"t buy nothing good anymore.

Janicholson · Mar 21, 2012

I agree. Magnetic suppression wires from Excell, or Belden, or Bosch, will do a much better job. Make sure your plugs are gapped correctly. Worn or eroded plugs with .070" gaps will spray sparks and ruin some distributor caps in short order. Jim

rustyfarmall · Mar 22, 2012

(quoted from post at 19:27:04 03/21/12) Bought a pair of tisco plug wires and cap from farm&fleet the ones you have to cut and put together yourself. Put them on my 706 started it up and it looked like I lit a sparkler they were arching between wires and head and on top of the new cap. Can"t buy nothing good anymore.

Maybe you didn't assemble them correctly? I've got the Tisco wires on 2 tractors. No problems with either of them.

mkirsch · Mar 22, 2012

You CAN'T assemble them correctly!

The little contacts you need to jab into the ends of the HARD plastic insulation are soft and bend right over. It's utterly impossible to assemble them.

We managed to get a set cobbed together for a 400. Most of them are just pushed together as a suggestion. Amazingly enough the tractor runs fine.

rustyfarmall · Mar 22, 2012

(quoted from post at 05:28:57 03/22/12) You CAN'T assemble them correctly!

The little contacts you need to jab into the ends of the HARD plastic insulation are soft and bend right over. It's utterly impossible to assemble them.

We managed to get a set cobbed together for a 400. Most of them are just pushed together as a suggestion. Amazingly enough the tractor runs fine.

If you put them together that way, it's a wonder it worked at all.

Strip back a portion of the insulation, exposing the wire. Fold that exposed wire back over the top of the insulation, and capture it under the brass terminal when you crimp it in place. Even better is to poke the exposed wire THROUGH that small hole in the terminal, crimp the terminal in place, and then SOLDER the exposed wire to the terminal.

pete 23 · Mar 22, 2012

I dislike all those so called sets you buy for the old tractors. I make my own from a roll of good wire and I don't use those little push on dist end as the next time you pull them out of the cap they come apart. They used to work ok on the old style stiff plug wires but they went to more supple neoprene many years ago. I use the crimp on ends where you do strip wire back a ways.

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