HarryVanderpool
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- Salem, Oregon
This may be boring to the experts here, but I thought someone might get something out of it.
This is about our 1944 2N that I'm always bragging about.
Front mount, 6 volt. (Of course!)
I went to start up today and when pressing the button just got a "waa, waa, waa". No fire.
One more time, "waa, waa, waa." Again, nothing.
I am not one that EVER cranks and cranks and cranks on any engines.
If an engine doesn't start in the usual fashion, somethings up.
In the case of our Ns, they usually start instantly.
O.K. check fuel. Yep, 1/2 tank full.
So I grab a spare spark plug, connect it to a sparkplug wire, set it on a head stud, turn on the key and crank,
No spark.
Well, I know what that means!!
The points are fried.
So off comes the distributor.
The first thing I notice is that the knucklehead that installed the points (me) didn't notice that the points were not aligned or parallel.
Also, there was a pit on one point surface that had welded to the other side. In addition, the gap had closed some.
Because the point surfaces looked otherwise good, I dislodged the dingleberry from the point face, aligned the faces and gapped.
Easey Peezy; right?
Put everything back together, washed my hands, grabbed my WorkTunes and hopped aboard to get some mowing done.
"waa, waa, waa" Nothing!
OH BOY, we're having fun now!!
I grabbed my volt-ohm meter and checked for voltage at the coil. Nuppins!
WHAT THE???
Is there voltage to the key? Yes. Is there voltage through the key switch? Yes.
Is there voltage at the resistor? No.
HUH?? I just found voltage on the output on the switch. But now I follow the wire down to the connection on the resistor and find nothing??
At the resistor, I was testing by placing the probe on the stud.
Hmmm,, could it be a corroded connection?
I grabbed a nut driver and a can of contact cleaner and decided to loosen the three nuts on the block, spray down with contact spray and retighten.
But when I went to loosen the nuts, they were ALL less than finger tight!!
Sprayed the connections down, tightened the nuts down and then....
...."waa-KA-Boom"!! Started as usual.
I just wanted to encourage the newer folks to slow down and take a systematic approach when problems arise.
These tractors are very simple. Try to narrow the problem and follow that system through until you know that system is functional.
Then and only then move to the next system.
And never get discouraged. Soon you can fix any problem on your N, blindfolded, standing on your head, with your hands tyed behind your back!
Like me!
This is about our 1944 2N that I'm always bragging about.
Front mount, 6 volt. (Of course!)
I went to start up today and when pressing the button just got a "waa, waa, waa". No fire.
One more time, "waa, waa, waa." Again, nothing.
I am not one that EVER cranks and cranks and cranks on any engines.
If an engine doesn't start in the usual fashion, somethings up.
In the case of our Ns, they usually start instantly.
O.K. check fuel. Yep, 1/2 tank full.
So I grab a spare spark plug, connect it to a sparkplug wire, set it on a head stud, turn on the key and crank,
No spark.
Well, I know what that means!!
The points are fried. So off comes the distributor.
The first thing I notice is that the knucklehead that installed the points (me) didn't notice that the points were not aligned or parallel.
Also, there was a pit on one point surface that had welded to the other side. In addition, the gap had closed some.
Because the point surfaces looked otherwise good, I dislodged the dingleberry from the point face, aligned the faces and gapped.
Easey Peezy; right?
Put everything back together, washed my hands, grabbed my WorkTunes and hopped aboard to get some mowing done.
"waa, waa, waa" Nothing!
OH BOY, we're having fun now!!
I grabbed my volt-ohm meter and checked for voltage at the coil. Nuppins!
WHAT THE???
Is there voltage to the key? Yes. Is there voltage through the key switch? Yes.
Is there voltage at the resistor? No.
HUH?? I just found voltage on the output on the switch. But now I follow the wire down to the connection on the resistor and find nothing??
At the resistor, I was testing by placing the probe on the stud.
Hmmm,, could it be a corroded connection?
I grabbed a nut driver and a can of contact cleaner and decided to loosen the three nuts on the block, spray down with contact spray and retighten.
But when I went to loosen the nuts, they were ALL less than finger tight!!
Sprayed the connections down, tightened the nuts down and then....
...."waa-KA-Boom"!! Started as usual.
I just wanted to encourage the newer folks to slow down and take a systematic approach when problems arise.
These tractors are very simple. Try to narrow the problem and follow that system through until you know that system is functional.
Then and only then move to the next system.
And never get discouraged. Soon you can fix any problem on your N, blindfolded, standing on your head, with your hands tyed behind your back!
Like me! 