Posted by thephantompatriot on September 22, 2014 at 13:15:57 from (24.112.147.17):
In Reply to: IH 354 Won't Start posted by thephantompatriot on September 17, 2014 at 16:49:43:
Okay so I have good news and bad news now.
Good news:
We got the tractor running. Apparently there was a few things that weren't right. We had points set to .025 instead of .014, got that number mixed up with the spark plug gap. Had the firing order wrong. And somehow we were missing a wire on the positive terminal of the coil.
Bad news: While messing with the coil we somehow wired it backwards and caught the jacket of the wire that goes from the coil to distributor on fire and wound up having to splice a new wire. We aren't sure if the coil is now fried, it heats up so hot that it burns when you touch it (it did this when it initially went up). When we did get it started I let it run for a minute or so, turned the ignition off and the starter kept cranking even though the ignition is off. We had to pull the positive terminal of the battery to kill it. Touched the positive back to it and it wound up again while the key is off. Oh and the last time I touched the terminal to the positive battery post it threw some big sparks and blew a small chunk out of the top of the post.
I have a few questions now:
-Is the coil supposed to get too hot to touch it or did we fry it? -What would cause the starter to get stuck "on" even though the key is off? -Why is the battery sparking like crazy when I touch the terminal to the positive post? Never happened before. Is it due to the closed circuit of the starter?
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