806 Fuel Shut-Off Solenoid Wire

I'm getting down to the last few pieces to assemble on the F806 & I'm hung up on the wire from the fuel solenoid. Have no clue what it plugs into. No loose, dangling wires & the parts catalog shows it gets connected to something on the back of the genny. Problem is, ain't nothing back there to connect to. I checked the harness that goes down to it & the only two wires I found are going where there supposed to.

Also, what size plug fits the vacuum hole in the manifold? I have a 1/4 plug stuffed in there, but it only went in a couple of threads. Is it metric? It would be my luck. Barely know what metric is around here. ;v)

Mike

The wire to the carb was hooked into the ing. feed wire going to the hot side of the ballast resistor.

The parts diagram showing number 12 wire at the back of the generator , but that is only where the wire is clipped to mounting bolt of generator. That wire comes from the other side of engine, and is hooked to the ign switch side of the ballast resistor and also lists it as number 12 in the illustration. If you happened to have a very late model with alternator and no external resistor, then tractor would have a resistance wire from switch to bypass terminal on starter solenoid. That model would run a separate wire all the way down from ign switch or to a switched terminal of dash as the fuel solenoid needs a full 12 volts and must not be powered through the ballast resistor or resistance wire.

Beat me and much simpler explanation.

Just goes to show ya i have played with way tomany gassers. The bad part is that i carry all the correct color wires on the truck along with all the correct wire ends and plastic connectors .

Ah! That makes sense. I've been looking for a dangling wire this whole time. Didn't give a second thought to the extra connector on the resistor with no wire on it. I bet that's it.

The 806 is pretty early, ser. #1254 & the engine is #992. I'm surprised it still has it's generator, an open-backed one at that. I suppose, the 292 in my Galaxy was almost identical to the one on my 806. That engine & genny worked fine until the car's end, at 168000+. I got sick & tired of putting trannys in it & sold it down the road. Not a fan of the Ford-o-Matic in that respect. Excellent mileage between that & the 3.00 gears in the rear, though.

Thanks for the help!!

Mike

They night have a similar external appearance, but the Ford Gen was a B circuit system with voltage supplied to the Field through the regulator through the field to ground in the frame. The Delco on the 806 was an A circuit type with regulator providing ground for the field with the field getting voltage from the Armature terminal. Interesting topic. I think 292Y blocks are also interesting (I have had many of them. Jim

You mean, there not ALL supposed to be red?? ;v)

Yep, you guys were on it. Once I went back out after dinner, the first thing I noticed was the connector on the resistor jutting out into thin air. Should have everything together & a running tractor by the weekend.

Thanks!

Mike

That is interesting. Now, I'm curious as to why the difference in gennys & their respective circuits. Is the B circuit system required because everything's grounded to the frame or is there more to it?

There's three things I kept from that car: engine, Cragars & exhaust from the clamp back. The engine was the heart of my first car & hehe, ran great when parked. I intend on shoe-horning it into an H somewhere off in the future. NOT for pulling, just for the pure enjoyment. The rims themselves on the Cragars were painted or powder coated black & the spokes & cap were chrome - always thought they looked sharp. The exhaust was a pair of pea-shooters, S.S. 1 3/4" milker-line pipe & kind of a trophy. I cannot use the language, here, to express how much fun I had bending that pipe into shape. The axle bends were the worst.

One of these days, I'll get another '62 Galaxy 500 4D sedan. Though I fear the plain-janes are probably close to extinct. Very sad!

Mike

56 Ford rag top 292 with 312 blower heads dual Bird cages Mallory dual points Isky 3/4 cam headman headers and a SLUSH BOX with 3.78 gears with a locker.

Ah No as you have light blue in 10 ga. a yellow in 14 ga. and orange in 14 ga. a black in 14 ga. and so on . yep i have rewired a bunch i have all the correct colors the dark greens the lite greens and purple the orange the lite blue and the dark blue the white and the red . The only wire i do not have is the resistor wire . Was never able to find that . so if and when i have to do something with that i revert back to the resistor up at the coil.

You're looking for the short wire between the coil & resistor? If it's the same as the one on a 460, then there is one left at the Depot. If you would like the part number, my email's open.

What kind of braided tube, if any, do you use for making a harness? Do they still make the natural type?

Mike

A '56 Ford ragtop? Would that be a first generation Fairlane? I would say it's a held-over Crestline, but the Y-block would be a transplant, I believe. Sounds like one hot gem either way!!

Mike

Nope , as when i got the car (not the car i wanted but the one my mom thought i should have) it came with the 292 Thunderbird special . I was the one that just had to make it better . I got that car in 62 in Sept. The car belonged to a little old maid school teacher here in town . i really did not like that car vary well since it had a automatic trans and power steering . It was white with a black top . The down side to owning it was where i lived and the mufflers on the car as it had dual Hollywoods . The town i lived in at the time had a Muffler ordnance , it was a speed trap and a truckers nightmare as it had it's own set of scales and with two U S highways and one state route coming into it there was a truck on the scales every hour of everyday . The one cop that worked night shift was my PITA , why i have no idea as i never did anything to tick him off and what was worse was the fact my dad was a Buckeye Bear . So i had best not do anything wrong in the traffic laws of the state as a traffic ticket would be nothing compared to what lay ahead at home . But old Harry was out to get me and would lay in wait for me and you could hear that old 292 coming from two miles out . so i had to try and make the house before he could get me and that meant never coming into town the same way . somehow i always made the drive and pull in and shut off the car and lay down on the seat and here he would come with the spotlight shinning it on the car and set at the end of the drive for a few min. It was a game i think with him . I had a company truck that i drove for work and my car sat till i was going out or to school. I worked for a large construction co. and when i got my drivers license the owner gave me a old 58 cheve pickup to drive till the summer of 63 then i got a new Ford one ton that was set up with everything you needed Old Harry would see me out at the fuel stop on the west end of town with the company truck getting gas and he would walk up to me a tell me that he was going to nab me someday in my loud car . and he did not care if my old man was a state cop or not , but he knew better then to try something while i was in the company truck. Only had the 56 for about one year and i found a 61 Ford rag top and bought it and started the build on it that took four months , as it was a 6 cylinder three on the tree when i bought it . When done it was a hand built 390 tri power with a four speed with ALL the goodies i could find at the time . This was a bare new block build with the vary best of everything 391 truck crank GT 40 rods 427 heads wolverine valves Custom built Crowler roller cam rockers and lifter and the biggie vary quiet MUFFLERS . OLD HARRY could not hear me coming home on a Friday or Saturday night.

I get the same stuff as ORg. and i get it by the roll from terminal suppy co. It comes in different sizes . I will have to place and order here before to long as my stock pile is getting low . so before spring comes i will take inventory and place and order . Probably be four or five hundred bucks worth .