Hi, I have a 8n coil not making contact front mt. (1949) new 12vt coil. It seems the metal tab on the coil (outer part, not pigtail) is too far away from the contact on the distributor cap.( yellowish brown one)
any comments? also the four sparkie inputs on the cap are numbered. 1234. So I assume the plug wires from the sparkies just match to those inputs on the cap. 1 being closest to the front on the tractor and so on. How does this have anything to do with the firing order 1243. The wires still go to the numbers on the cap, correct? I hope this makes sense it is very late here and I"ve been working on this for 3 days. It ran rough under load and would stall. New cap,coil, condenser, wires, plugs, block resistor, ceramic resistor, and tons of reading. Points at 15. tried 18, got worse. some backfiring, Now no rpms, rough running, cant leave the barn. Fuel is next after I go back to 15 on the points. It comes out of the bowl drain, but kinda slow. all filters cleaned. Thanks for listening, Cal
any comments? also the four sparkie inputs on the cap are numbered. 1234. So I assume the plug wires from the sparkies just match to those inputs on the cap. 1 being closest to the front on the tractor and so on. How does this have anything to do with the firing order 1243. The wires still go to the numbers on the cap, correct? I hope this makes sense it is very late here and I"ve been working on this for 3 days. It ran rough under load and would stall. New cap,coil, condenser, wires, plugs, block resistor, ceramic resistor, and tons of reading. Points at 15. tried 18, got worse. some backfiring, Now no rpms, rough running, cant leave the barn. Fuel is next after I go back to 15 on the points. It comes out of the bowl drain, but kinda slow. all filters cleaned. Thanks for listening, Cal