Yes, that's right. Keep It Simple Stupid!
Yesterday I was using the 3 point scrape blade to clear where we had been feeding round bales, and it was built up with old, soggy, rotted hay. The 8N was running great until about 1/2 way through the job. It started missing a bit, and popping slightly through the exhaust. It was pretty random, so I figured I'd just continue until something broke, figuring it was a fuel problem.
As I was working, my thoughts went to what I will need to order. Points, distributor cap, carb gaskets, etc, etc, etc. I had that tractor completely torn down in my mind, and doing an overhaul. Weird, I thought, since it has been running perfectly.
Dropped the scrape blade and brought ol' Hank up to the garage. I started checking around, looking, tugging, and messing with stuff until I happened to stumble across the issue.
The coil wire was loose on the distributor! Pushed it back down in place, and what do you know? Ol' Hank was running perfectly again!
So, in the big scheme of things, look for the easiest, cheapest stuff first. At this point, I'm glad I did that first BEFORE I started ordering stuff on here to fix a non-existent issue.
I really enjoy this forum. I rarely post, but absorb all the info on here on a regular basis. Hoping I can hammer home yet again that the simplest stuff is what to look for first, as I have a tendency to go right to the most catastrophic stuff first.
Yesterday I was using the 3 point scrape blade to clear where we had been feeding round bales, and it was built up with old, soggy, rotted hay. The 8N was running great until about 1/2 way through the job. It started missing a bit, and popping slightly through the exhaust. It was pretty random, so I figured I'd just continue until something broke, figuring it was a fuel problem.
As I was working, my thoughts went to what I will need to order. Points, distributor cap, carb gaskets, etc, etc, etc. I had that tractor completely torn down in my mind, and doing an overhaul. Weird, I thought, since it has been running perfectly.
Dropped the scrape blade and brought ol' Hank up to the garage. I started checking around, looking, tugging, and messing with stuff until I happened to stumble across the issue.
The coil wire was loose on the distributor! Pushed it back down in place, and what do you know? Ol' Hank was running perfectly again!
So, in the big scheme of things, look for the easiest, cheapest stuff first. At this point, I'm glad I did that first BEFORE I started ordering stuff on here to fix a non-existent issue.
I really enjoy this forum. I rarely post, but absorb all the info on here on a regular basis. Hoping I can hammer home yet again that the simplest stuff is what to look for first, as I have a tendency to go right to the most catastrophic stuff first.
