MarlinSlayer
Bronze Member
Well I bought my Jubilee from a guy who didn't know much about them. It's got a little button (Relay I suspect) that you have to press in order to get the altenator to actually charge. When you press the button after start, sure enough the ammeter jumps up.
If you don't remember, I burned up a starter that was already smoking trying to get the tractor to start after replacing points, condenser, wires, cap and plugs. Finally got the oled Jube home and removed starter and had it completely reworked. Only got it to crank once.... and when I hit starter again, I heard solenoid click and nothing else. Voltages all seem wrong, and I compared the wiring briefly to the 12v wiring diagrams and noticed none had a charging button. I've seen a restored one with what looked like a button in the middle of the cluster...but it could have been a light. I've searched the web and parts store and can't find a reference to afore said button.
This is the restored tractor...is that a light or a charging button
Is the charging button standard, or is it some kind of aftermarket genius of some guy who thought he had a good idea.
As far as the starter is concerned. When it doesn't crank, I hear an initial click of the solenoid, then nothing...then on repeated attempts, do not hear the solenoid click. Lights will not work at that point. disconnected battery, waited a while, then reconnected the battery and I could get the solenoid to click and then nothing. This happened the first timeI tried to crank tractor. took out starter hit it with jumpers, it spun, so I re-installed it, tightened ground, then cranked it once with plugs out. next time I cranked it, solenoid clicked, then nothing...on additional attempts, solenoid would not click and lights would not work. I suspect there might be something wrong with starter solenoid and am thinking about doing a complete rewire as the existing connections look pretty poor. This is when I found that my charging button didn't appear on any parts list.
Any help? I checked the Battery of unknown age and it is strong. Is this a grounding problem, or do solenoids go bad and short out a little?
What about this mystery charging button?
On a side note, I looked at serial number today and I think that this was the last Jube made in '53...next number is a 54 model....does that make it any more valuable? I'm going to check compression if I can ever get it to crank consistently. rumoured to be rebuilt about 4 years ago, and except for a bad dogleg and a rough grill, some other cosmetics it ran strong until it wouldn't start. Proof meter says 450
If you don't remember, I burned up a starter that was already smoking trying to get the tractor to start after replacing points, condenser, wires, cap and plugs. Finally got the oled Jube home and removed starter and had it completely reworked. Only got it to crank once.... and when I hit starter again, I heard solenoid click and nothing else. Voltages all seem wrong, and I compared the wiring briefly to the 12v wiring diagrams and noticed none had a charging button. I've seen a restored one with what looked like a button in the middle of the cluster...but it could have been a light. I've searched the web and parts store and can't find a reference to afore said button.
This is the restored tractor...is that a light or a charging button
Is the charging button standard, or is it some kind of aftermarket genius of some guy who thought he had a good idea.
As far as the starter is concerned. When it doesn't crank, I hear an initial click of the solenoid, then nothing...then on repeated attempts, do not hear the solenoid click. Lights will not work at that point. disconnected battery, waited a while, then reconnected the battery and I could get the solenoid to click and then nothing. This happened the first timeI tried to crank tractor. took out starter hit it with jumpers, it spun, so I re-installed it, tightened ground, then cranked it once with plugs out. next time I cranked it, solenoid clicked, then nothing...on additional attempts, solenoid would not click and lights would not work. I suspect there might be something wrong with starter solenoid and am thinking about doing a complete rewire as the existing connections look pretty poor. This is when I found that my charging button didn't appear on any parts list.
Any help? I checked the Battery of unknown age and it is strong. Is this a grounding problem, or do solenoids go bad and short out a little?
What about this mystery charging button?
On a side note, I looked at serial number today and I think that this was the last Jube made in '53...next number is a 54 model....does that make it any more valuable? I'm going to check compression if I can ever get it to crank consistently. rumoured to be rebuilt about 4 years ago, and except for a bad dogleg and a rough grill, some other cosmetics it ran strong until it wouldn't start. Proof meter says 450
