New Farmall can't get it started again, please hel

Posted by Tanner Clark on December 06, 2004 at 04:47:51 from (206.239.4.3):

Man, what a long long trip it was to New York and back. We left at 2am Saturday and made the trip in one day, but we did it. Ok so here's the story. It is a 1944 H with wide fron end and loader. I got there, and the guy was pretty cool, however he didn't know much about tractors, let alone Farmall's. It took a while to get the thing started, and finally it did, however it only would run for like 5 minutes and then shut off. I don't know what this means? Anyway, it had everything done to it like the forum's say not to do, alternator, voltage regulator, wires everywhere. I knew that I could rewire everything once I got home. The loader worked fine, and all the other things worked fine too. When we got home we went to sleep. I got up the next morning, made breakfast, and then proceeded to unload the tractor. I couldn't get it started, and still never did. Here come some diagnostic questions. After killing the original battery while trying to crank it over I went and got a new one from Wal-mart, a 750 - 650 cold cranking amps. Anyway, I killed that one too. So I returned it, and got a new one that I have not tried to use yet. Prior to killing the 2nd battery, I took out and cleaned the plugs and gapped them to .023 spec. Took apart the dist and cleaned out all kinds of stuff. Right before the 2nd battery was completely dead an explosion occurred, but this was normal because the motor was sputtering and popping. The explosion seemed in a different place though, closer to the battery than were it had been popping from the carb. So I went and got the new battery, I hooked this only to the starting switch and the starting motor, nothing happened. I am wondering if something shorted out in the starting switch, ignition switch, battery wires, etc. So I think the best bet is to buy all new wires, battery and such, to put it back to an OEM 6volt system. I think I have all the parts to do this. The emabarresing thing is that I had to tow the tractor off of the trailer. So it is sitting in front of my house right now. It has to be moved prior to X-mas because of family coming. I am wondering what I need to do now to get this bad boy running again. The other problem, is that it has to run to get the loader back into the air so I can at least tow it if need be, I can't right now because it would tear everthing up in the driveway, not to mention the bottom of the loader. Puzzled?

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• Re: New Farmall can't get it started again, please Tanner Clark 04:22:12 12/07/04 (0)
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