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Justinjones6381

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Yes im trying to awake a sleeping beast (lol) and im leaning towards the distubutor is not right. im saying this because ive never dealt with points and contacts before. so im depending on the fine peeps from yesterday tractor to help me.HELP ME YESTERDAY TRACTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I'm thinking you are talking about a wico distributor. That would be correct on the early ones. the later 50's had a delco distributor and they were much better. Gordy in Mn
 
"<font color="#6699ff">[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]ive never dealt with points and contacts before.[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]</font>"

As [b:654c4848f0]Gordy in Mn[/b:654c4848f0] mentioned below, there were two different distributors installed on Model 50 tractors.

Take a look at the table below.

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Note the Wico distributor was installed from 1952 until early 1954.

Take a look at the Wico diagram below.

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The Delco distributor was installed from early 1954 through 1956.

Take a look at the Delco diagram below.

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Which one of these distributors in on your tractor?
 
This is one method of setting the point gap on a Delco-Remy distributor.

Remove the cover with springs from the flywheel cover.

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Turn flywheel counter-clockwise until cam opens points to widest position.

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Loosen the lock screw.

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Adjust contact point opening to .022-inch by turning the eccentric screw.

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Hope this helps.
 
James, a question, how did you know he was talking about a John Deere 50? Nothing in his post that I can see to tell that. I when I saw it I thought of Cockshutt 50 or Massey Ferguson 50. So before he put the serial number on for your first post how did you know it was a Deere and not one of the others?
 
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