Farmall 140 stuttering and shooting flames out exhaust

csangster · Jan 27, 2014

Less than a week ago my 140 was running just fine when I plowed my driveway. Tonight I went out to plow my driveway, she started right up, but once I pushed up the RPM"s I noticed she was running rough, missing, and sending flames out the exhaust. What would change that drastically to cause the 140 to start running that way? Carb? Points? Condenser? I need to get this fixed because another storm is coming this way later in the week, and I don"t want to plow with it running like that again. Please help.

4010wy · Jan 27, 2014

I had a T-20 crawler with a chevy 6 in her. Push snow she run fine, run out of gas, go to the house get more, come back and she miss fire and not start till it got stone cold the next day. Then run just fine tell you shut her off. Moister in the cap, could never get her totaly dry, parked in the heated garage, nothing totaly cured it. The old timers remeber there was somthing they sprayed in the cap that helps. I never found it out.

gene bender · Jan 27, 2014

Take off the dist cap there must be moisture from previous use or also check wires for same thing snow mite have collected from the last time now plug wires are wet where the cconnect to the plugs or the cap even coil wire.

David G · Jan 28, 2014

I would pull cap/wires and dry them out real good, then go from there.

D7fever · Jan 28, 2014

dry them out( not the wires) in the oven at about 200 degrees.

David G · Jan 28, 2014

Good Idea.

gene bender · Jan 28, 2014

Why not get the wires good and dry while you are doing the rest of the parts 200 isnt that hot they would get that warm on a good hot day under load.

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