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    H bad fuel

    I got it fixed! It was the ignition coil. The old one was bulged on the bottom and cracked at the top. I installed a new coil and hooked it up properly with a resistor so that it gets full voltage only when the starter motor is cranking and a diode so that the current does not back feed from...
  2. J

    H bad fuel

    That is interesting about the coil. I have not checked it lately, but my coil used to get really hot. I was concerned that it might burst from the heat, but it never did. Some years ago I had a rheostat (variable resistor) connected to the input side of the coil and ,now that you mention it...
  3. J

    H bad fuel

    About eight years ago the fuel went bad ,over the winter, in my 1940 Farmall H. I cleaned the rust out of the fuel tank and cleaned the carburetor but it has never run right since then. I have owned the tractor for 20 years and it ran perfectly when I got it. It runs OK at 1/2 throttle...
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