Hello all, I have been having problems with my tractor for about 4 weeks now. I am completely stumped with it. Problem is it wont start. I'll give specs in a minute, but heres what Ive done so far. Coil went south so got a 12V to replace the old 6V, also I replaced the condenser, points inside the distributor, along with the cap and rotor. The condenser and coil seemed to fix this. Once we put a new condenser on it, it fired right up, ran it for about 2 days. Yesterday go to fire it up to start disc'n my field, it starts, runs for about 10 secs, then died. Something thats common with this on a cold start.
Well go to crank it back up, and I just get the click, and nothing happens. Sounds like the push button just makes a connection then nothing. Now I push the button and I get no sound, not even the click as if the battery was too low to start it. Ive tried jumping the battery, even took the battery out of my truck and still nothing. I have been testing all the wiring to make sure its getting voltage. I get power to the solenoid, and power goes to the starting push button as well. BUT, when I turn the key to on, all the voltage goes away, even if I put a test lead on the battery terminal, it registers about 1-2volts and thats it. But turn the key off, and everything to the solenoid goes back to registering 12 volts. I put on a new solenoid and this didn't fix the problem. Is there some sort of short im missing somewhere? I don't know where to go with this. Another odd thing is the lights work sparatically. Sometimes they come on when I pull the nob, sometimes not. Any help will be appreciated.
1964 Ford 4000 4cyl gas
12V coil
alternator
Entire System is at 3.2 ohms of resistance coming out of the coil - Coil is 1.4 ohms, 1 resistor is 1.3, other resistor is .5 ohms. They aren't getting hot or anything when key is on, but they did when the condenser was bad.
Well go to crank it back up, and I just get the click, and nothing happens. Sounds like the push button just makes a connection then nothing. Now I push the button and I get no sound, not even the click as if the battery was too low to start it. Ive tried jumping the battery, even took the battery out of my truck and still nothing. I have been testing all the wiring to make sure its getting voltage. I get power to the solenoid, and power goes to the starting push button as well. BUT, when I turn the key to on, all the voltage goes away, even if I put a test lead on the battery terminal, it registers about 1-2volts and thats it. But turn the key off, and everything to the solenoid goes back to registering 12 volts. I put on a new solenoid and this didn't fix the problem. Is there some sort of short im missing somewhere? I don't know where to go with this. Another odd thing is the lights work sparatically. Sometimes they come on when I pull the nob, sometimes not. Any help will be appreciated.
1964 Ford 4000 4cyl gas
12V coil
alternator
Entire System is at 3.2 ohms of resistance coming out of the coil - Coil is 1.4 ohms, 1 resistor is 1.3, other resistor is .5 ohms. They aren't getting hot or anything when key is on, but they did when the condenser was bad.