8 volt cub update

[grandpa Love]

Finally had some time in the barn yesterday. Noticed the battery had a sticker of 6-23 on it. Got out the tester....8.19, hmmm. Hooked up the ground cable and it spun the motor over. Went to work on things then. Pulled the spark plugs and squirted some oil in each cylinder, removed the carb and got it soaking. Removed the valve cover and found one sticky valve,got it moving, adjusted them all ,cut a new gasket and closed it up. Next issue,no juice to the coil, chased wires and found one that had pulled out of a crimped on connector on the ceramic resistor. Fixed that and we have spark. Put a brand new Amazon carb on it ,new plugs and tried to fire it up. Didn't want to run. Just happened to feel the battery ground cable,it was blazing HOT. Made a new 2 gauge cable. Tried to run, puffing smoke. Loosen distributor, twist,try, worse , twist way back the other way,and it's alive and running! Wait ,crap, no oil pressure,cut it off, prime oil pump, fire it up and oil pressure!!Amp gauge in dash shows it's charging,but I hooked up the tester and at idle I get 8.4 rev it way up and I show 8.85- 8.9 Guessing that is good enough?. Cleaned the original carb and installed it, working great.Drained all the fluids,will refill this morning. Also the the carb linkage from the governor has an odd spring running to the dog leg, apparently the governor spring needs swapping. All in all a successful day

 

[Stroby]

Dandy, a lot of folks think this stuff is easy. lol

 

[caterpillar guy]

Most of it is pretty easy just time consuming and some of it rather tedious.

 

[Richard G.]

Finally had some time in the barn yesterday. Noticed the battery had a sticker of 6-23 on it. Got out the tester....8.19, hmmm. Hooked up the ground cable and it spun the motor over. Went to work on things then. Pulled the spark plugs and squirted some oil in each cylinder, removed the carb and got it soaking. Removed the valve cover and found one sticky valve,got it moving, adjusted them all ,cut a new gasket and closed it up. Next issue,no juice to the coil, chased wires and found one that had pulled out of a crimped on connector on the ceramic resistor. Fixed that and we have spark. Put a brand new Amazon carb on it ,new plugs and tried to fire it up. Didn't want to run. Just happened to feel the battery ground cable,it was blazing HOT. Made a new 2 gauge cable. Tried to run, puffing smoke. Loosen distributor, twist,try, worse , twist way back the other way,and it's alive and running! Wait ,crap, no oil pressure,cut it off, prime oil pump, fire it up and oil pressure!!Amp gauge in dash shows it's charging,but I hooked up the tester and at idle I get 8.4 rev it way up and I show 8.85- 8.9 Guessing that is good enough?. Cleaned the original carb and installed it, working great.Drained all the fluids,will refill this morning. Also the the carb linkage from the governor has an odd spring running to the dog leg, apparently the governor spring needs swapping. All in all a successful day

That is great Kevin.

 

[wh]

Finally had some time in the barn yesterday. Noticed the battery had a sticker of 6-23 on it. Got out the tester....8.19, hmmm. Hooked up the ground cable and it spun the motor over. Went to work on things then. Pulled the spark plugs and squirted some oil in each cylinder, removed the carb and got it soaking. Removed the valve cover and found one sticky valve,got it moving, adjusted them all ,cut a new gasket and closed it up. Next issue,no juice to the coil, chased wires and found one that had pulled out of a crimped on connector on the ceramic resistor. Fixed that and we have spark. Put a brand new Amazon carb on it ,new plugs and tried to fire it up. Didn't want to run. Just happened to feel the battery ground cable,it was blazing HOT. Made a new 2 gauge cable. Tried to run, puffing smoke. Loosen distributor, twist,try, worse , twist way back the other way,and it's alive and running! Wait ,crap, no oil pressure,cut it off, prime oil pump, fire it up and oil pressure!!Amp gauge in dash shows it's charging,but I hooked up the tester and at idle I get 8.4 rev it way up and I show 8.85- 8.9 Guessing that is good enough?. Cleaned the original carb and installed it, working great.Drained all the fluids,will refill this morning. Also the the carb linkage from the governor has an odd spring running to the dog leg, apparently the governor spring needs swapping. All in all a successful day

Whatever you do, DO NOT reuse the headgasket!!! Great to get it running.

 

[JOCCO]

That is good news sounds like you did a great job!

 

[wore out]

Finally had some time in the barn yesterday. Noticed the battery had a sticker of 6-23 on it. Got out the tester....8.19, hmmm. Hooked up the ground cable and it spun the motor over. Went to work on things then. Pulled the spark plugs and squirted some oil in each cylinder, removed the carb and got it soaking. Removed the valve cover and found one sticky valve,got it moving, adjusted them all ,cut a new gasket and closed it up. Next issue,no juice to the coil, chased wires and found one that had pulled out of a crimped on connector on the ceramic resistor. Fixed that and we have spark. Put a brand new Amazon carb on it ,new plugs and tried to fire it up. Didn't want to run. Just happened to feel the battery ground cable,it was blazing HOT. Made a new 2 gauge cable. Tried to run, puffing smoke. Loosen distributor, twist,try, worse , twist way back the other way,and it's alive and running! Wait ,crap, no oil pressure,cut it off, prime oil pump, fire it up and oil pressure!!Amp gauge in dash shows it's charging,but I hooked up the tester and at idle I get 8.4 rev it way up and I show 8.85- 8.9 Guessing that is good enough?. Cleaned the original carb and installed it, working great.Drained all the fluids,will refill this morning. Also the the carb linkage from the governor has an odd spring running to the dog leg, apparently the governor spring needs swapping. All in all a successful day

GREAT save!

An 8 Volt system CAN work!

 

[old]

Whatever you do, DO NOT reuse the headgasket!!! Great to get it running.

I have reused head gaskets many many times but when I did they where metal ones. My BA has a used head gasket on it and it has been that way for years now

 

[Janicholson]

All good. When sold, let the new owner in on 8v chargers that were cited here. Well done. Jim

 

[grandpa Love]

All good. When sold, let the new owner in on 8v chargers that were cited here. Well done. Jim

It's actually a customers tractor,they dropped it off here for us to fix

 

[Fixingfarmer]

8.8 to 9.2 I believe is what it should be charging so the regulator might need jazzed up a touch or belt checked or tell him wide open throttle only haha if that's the plan. After having the tender on it for days ours would settle at 8.4 so if he's putzing around the yard he's probably not charging.