elderlyphart
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If you lay the solenoid out and it is not touching tractor metal it is not grounded and will not work. Hook up a ground wire in that case.
Slowly creeping back out ? That solenoid should pull in and stay in, not wander around.
If you have a volt meter (dirt cheap at harbor freight) measure voltage into the solenoid. You are measuring voltage drop across the solenoid. Should be up close to 12V.
If voltage is low, maybe creeping downward, there is probably a bad connection at a plug in or something. Maybe even the key switch. Go backwards, wiggle wires as you check, go down the line checking voltage till you find the full 12 volts. You will know where the problem is. I think there is only one plug between the solenoid and the key where a problem might occur. A bad corroded connection which will drop voltage. It can and will float around because of heat buildup at the bad spot. Drop 8 volts across the bad spot and only get 4 volts to the place that needs the full 12 V.
You can not measure voltage drop if the circuit is dis-connected anywhere because you wold measure the full 12V drop across the air gap you created. Yep, voltage drop. You sound like a big time electrician when you toss around words like that.
Us dummys find voltage drop by feeling connections. When we burn the crap out of our fingers we have found the problem.
Hows that for making it all technical and confusing?
Just be sure you got 12V at the solenoid and it STAYS there when you wiggle wires, key etc.
Dang man! You might have to replace the whole top of the carb? Never had a problem like that but gotta be fixed.
Slowly creeping back out ? That solenoid should pull in and stay in, not wander around.
If you have a volt meter (dirt cheap at harbor freight) measure voltage into the solenoid. You are measuring voltage drop across the solenoid. Should be up close to 12V.
If voltage is low, maybe creeping downward, there is probably a bad connection at a plug in or something. Maybe even the key switch. Go backwards, wiggle wires as you check, go down the line checking voltage till you find the full 12 volts. You will know where the problem is. I think there is only one plug between the solenoid and the key where a problem might occur. A bad corroded connection which will drop voltage. It can and will float around because of heat buildup at the bad spot. Drop 8 volts across the bad spot and only get 4 volts to the place that needs the full 12 V.
You can not measure voltage drop if the circuit is dis-connected anywhere because you wold measure the full 12V drop across the air gap you created. Yep, voltage drop. You sound like a big time electrician when you toss around words like that.
Us dummys find voltage drop by feeling connections. When we burn the crap out of our fingers we have found the problem.
Hows that for making it all technical and confusing?
Just be sure you got 12V at the solenoid and it STAYS there when you wiggle wires, key etc.
Dang man! You might have to replace the whole top of the carb? Never had a problem like that but gotta be fixed.