farmall 130

[ken house]

130 farmall, starter is not turning motor over very good. may be the battery (6 v). tried to hand crank it. it kicked hard. will not try that again. adjusted timing. cleaned points, while i was there, has not ran since. getting gas. i have a wire soldered to a spark plug, for a tester. cannot get fire. took distributor wire off of dist. grounded it and cannot get fire. ???put coil on another tractor, it started right up. ??? so coil is good.

 

[WellWorn]

Hi Ken,
You may have more than one problem. You may know and have checked some of these things, or you may not have.

How are you setting the timing? Have you checked to make sure that #1 is at TDC (pull the #1 plug and put a finger in the spark plug hole while someone else hand cranks it slowly (with the ignition off!) - you should feel compression until it starts to 'suck' your finger - that's just over TDC) and which 'point' of the distributor cap the rotor points to? Have you checked to make sure that the firing order plug wires are following the rotor rotation?

If you have (or can borrow) a volt meter, check the battery voltage both at the battery + and - terminals, and at the 'non-points' side of the coil to the engine block with the ignition on. If you have full battery voltage at the coil, try changing the condenser. If not, check the fuse on the dash. Also check the distributor shaft to see if it 'wiggles' - too much wear in the shaft and/or bushings can make it not spark by not giving a proper point gap at all times.

There may be other things, but the above will help eliminate the big ones.

Keep us posted with your progress.

Well Worn

 

[mkirsch]

If it kicked while hand cranking, you're getting spark.

It may be when you try to crank over the engine with the battery, that the starter draws the battery down so much that it doesn't have enough voltage to make a spark.

Try a good 12V battery in place of the weak 6V and see what you get. You won't hurt anything on the tractor.

 

[ken house]

thanks

 

[ken house]

cleaned battery cable terminals, battery posts. replaced starter. set 12 v battery on floorboard and that sucker started on the first turn.