Paul in MN
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Yesterday I did a tune up on a front mount 1947 8N.I had bought the electrical tune up kit from my CNH dealer a few months ago. When I opened the package, what did my eyes discover?? Oh, the points were made in Tiawan. They did look to be good, but would not fit over the point adjustment screw (with the X head) until I took the dremel tool to that slot in the points base. The rotor in the kit would bearly fit on the dist shaft. It took some real effort to get it into place. The gaskets in the kit were of poor quality, although the cork gasket for the square box coil did fit, and the cork ring for the dist cap was OK. With some disappointment and being a bit disgusted with the CNH kit, I went to NAPA for the new dist cap ($17). I thought the price was a bit high, but the Echlin quality looked good, and it did not fight with the rotor. My son picked up a new ignition key switch for CNH, (about $12) but the nut to hold the switch in place was an additional $8. Sure enough the thread part of the switch is just a bit smaller than the old switch, and so the old nut can not be reused. The new key switch looked very cheap with a plastic section that the key fits into. The diameter of the switch body is maybe about 1/2 the diameter of the old one. All of this was for a customer's tractor, and I sure hope that it doesn't come back because of poor parts.
Oh and the new condenser is about 1/2 the size of the old one, and doesn't fit right until the anchor strap is modified, and is fully corroded with some white corosion on the metal covering of the conderser body. So I put the old one back in. The condenser is part of the low voltage circuit, and the outside case is part of that circuit. As Dell would say, "brighty, tighty!" and I was not going to spend a bunch of time polishing the corrosion off the new condenser, so I hope the old one is good enough.
I think CNH is driving me to do all the electrical parts sourcing from NAPA. After all the wasted time of fighting with ill fitting parts, paid for in premium $$ to the CNH dealer, I was just PO'ed.
So I did a big welding job today instead of fixing another 8N that is in the line of customer's tractors to be fixed. I had to let my temper cool off a bit before looking at another N, and finding that I will not get good parts for what it needs.
So that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!
Paul in MN
Oh and the new condenser is about 1/2 the size of the old one, and doesn't fit right until the anchor strap is modified, and is fully corroded with some white corosion on the metal covering of the conderser body. So I put the old one back in. The condenser is part of the low voltage circuit, and the outside case is part of that circuit. As Dell would say, "brighty, tighty!" and I was not going to spend a bunch of time polishing the corrosion off the new condenser, so I hope the old one is good enough.
I think CNH is driving me to do all the electrical parts sourcing from NAPA. After all the wasted time of fighting with ill fitting parts, paid for in premium $$ to the CNH dealer, I was just PO'ed.
So I did a big welding job today instead of fixing another 8N that is in the line of customer's tractors to be fixed. I had to let my temper cool off a bit before looking at another N, and finding that I will not get good parts for what it needs.
So that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!
Paul in MN
