hey Doug 550

Tony in Mass. · Sep 17, 2012

I would really like to know how you made out with that dead coil or electrical system. You had the greatest electrical wizards on the planet involved in that project's thread, I hope you didn't give up on it yet.

550Doug · Sep 18, 2012

Hi Tony: Thanks for your concern over my electrical problems. I haven"t been able to duplicate your Indian trick yet but I will continue trying on other tractors/coils. I"m wondering whether that 7 inch spark needs an old decrepit coil to do that.
Anyways, I did solve my problem.
By replacing one item at a time I found that the points were bad. I had cleaned them and they looked much nicer than the set of points I replaced them with. Go figure, I had an old set of points from a tune up several years ago and they had dirt and crud on them but after a quick wipe I put them in and bingo; it fired right up.
Could this be the Chinese dragon rearing its head?

Tony in Mass. · Sep 18, 2012

I had the same results, I don't think it is so much where they were made, but the ...'number of aplications?' like "fits all engines on all machines from 1898 to 2012"... yeah sure. I.. the lying moron that I am...think the cam follower and diameter of the post seem to be -varied? Some engines can eat these tolerances, some can't.
As far as my ol indian trick, I told the guy that did it to my F162, he wasn't suprised by the reactions here, he is more grease money than computor geek, but he is going to try making a video the next time he needs to try it- apparently the coil has to be the problem, but not a cooked one of course. And then he intends to register with YT and join the conversations... but he he will get poofed really quick I bet...
glad you fixed it!

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