Re: It's the POINTS, you idiot!

Posted by kfox on November 13, 2006 at 08:47:42 from (63.18.229.125):

In Reply to: It's the POINTS, you idiot! posted by Bob on November 13, 2006 at 07:47:27:

Bob, Even those of us that grew up with points & condensers tend to forget. They actually didn't cause much trouble, even when thats all we had. It was usually a last thing to suspect when something wouldn't start, ot didn't run right. (remember the automatic chokes with the round plastic adjuster?) My old H had been around for about a year, and all I had done to the ignition system was spark plugs. I looked at the points when I put the plugs in and they looked new so I didn't change them. The first time I really needed the old tractor to start, it wouldn't fire a lick. It was 30 degrees, and very damp weather, and I messed with it for about a hour with no luck. My Grandson had buried his little S-10 pickup in my yard and we couldn't budge it, so I uncovered the old 41 H and thats when I had my first lesson with points in probably 30 years. After I tried everything else, including starting fluid, I finally remembered "POINTS".
They still looked OK, but when I pried them apart with a screwdriver I got sparks on the screwdriver. Then it all came back. I got a point file and drug it through the points lightly, and put it all back togather and hit the starter button. Started like a new one. The points & condensers were not a bad system, if you took care of them, but when the GM electronic ignitions came out in the early 70s, it was a big leap forward. ken

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