help!! M farmall has no fire.

Posted by Bill Smith on July 08, 2001 at 13:16:20 from (128.242.4.59):

Never thought I would say I'm having trouble with distributor but this one has got me stumped. I have tried several things but could use some help so here me out. M farmall hasn't run for a couple years but it ran when I parked it. Decided it was about time to get it going again. Done all the checking and preparing before I tried to start it but wound up without any spark. After doing a spark test on 1 of the spark plugs I checked spark at the coil wire. Didn't have spark there either. Got out the test light and I had juice to the coil, through the coil and to the points. My first thought was that it might be a bad coil or condenser. I have an H farmall that runs fine. Both tractors have Delco Remy distributors so I took coil and condenser off the H and put them on the M. Still didn't have any spark. Then I thought maybe I was checking spark with a bad plug or a bad wire so I used a different plug and a wire off the H that I knew was good. Still no spark. So then I thought maybe I lost juice or the ground to the plug so I got out the test light again and still had juice to the points and used it to check to see if the plug was grounded and it was. Still no spark. I looked at the points to check them out. Made sure they were closing and checked the gap. They were working fine and didn't look corroded. If I remember right I just put new ones in not long before I quit using the tractor and replaced the condenser as well. Both tractors are 12 volt to the starter and has one of those reducer downer to 6 volt deals before it gets to the coil. Not sure if the distributor cap and rotor are good but by checking spark right out of the coil that should eliminate a problem in the cap or rotor. any help would be appriciated. I don't do the e-mail thing so a message right here at this message will do just fine. Thanks alot. One other thing. When the tractor was parked the battery was taken out and put in something else.

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