plug wires

[blitz]

I have to replace my gas tank on my 8n and was thinking "while it's off" maybe I'll replace those old looking plug wires. The tractor is 12 volt electronic with a true round can from napa and I was wondering ..do I use the original style copper or the newer fancy stuff for plug wires??
Opinions please..

 

[Bruce (VA)]

Copper core only; see tip # 27.
50 Tips

 

[Bob]

With your 12 Volt system and round-can coil you can run whatever wires you want.

Nothing wrong with staying with solid-core wires, or if radio noise is a problem, RF suppression wires will be just fine.

Or, get premium wound wire core wires and have the best of both worlds... low resistance AND RF noise suppression.

 

[Dell (WA)]

Blitz.......use the universal coppercore sparkie wire kit, cut to fit. The "premium" kit is for sphincterly challenged self-appointed originality inspectors. Strictly a visual thing. When I put new sparkie wire in my eazy starting 6-volt 52-8N, I bought a "hot-rod" copper wire kit for Pontiac V-8 so I have nice rubber right-angle booties under the tank. There is nuttin' sacred about sparkie wires except NEW INSULATION is so much better than "original" woven cloth covered sparkie wires ......Dell, yer self-appointed sparkie-meister

 

[John P.]

I followed Tip #27 this weekend and have a sweet solid core Accel spark plug wiring harness now, the tractor never idled so smooth!

 

[blitz]

copper core it is!!! they are on the way. Thanks to all for sharing thier thoughts.

 

[Bruce (VA)]

Tnx for the follow-up!

I've bought tractors w/ some of the d@mdest wiring you'll ever see. I guess Henry designed a good tractor to run off of that mess!

 

[kilroy]

my great grandad had 2 wires on his old farmall H that were baling wire wrapped with a strip of old innertube. it missed a little..........