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My Cousin's H. . .She's a Runner!
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Posted by David Kronwall on October 17, 2005 at 06:32:44 from (64.201.77.232):
Thanks to you guys, we got the '44 H running! Here's what we did. First, we put a tester on the battery to see if it had power. Yep, it did. Then we pulled off the distributor cap, which was dry, and we shined up the points a little. I hand-cranked the engine while he watched the rotor. Yep, it rotated. So we put the cap back on. Next, we reinstalled the OLD coil, since we weren't so sure the new one was installed correctly. The old coil was marked "to distributor" and "to ignition." (The new one just has -/+ terminals--which one goes to the distributor and which goes to the ignition? The dealer also said it was a 12v coil but converted to 6v if you put it on a 6v system? Can that be right?) We pulled the coil wire from the distributor cap and put it near the block, then hand-cranked the engine. There was spark. We pulled each plug, one-by-one, and tested for spark like the coil wire. Every plug was wet--we assume from all the gas we had pulled through when we towed the H the other day. We dried each one, then did the test. All had spark. We figured it should run now. My cousin cranked her. . .and off she roared--just like she was ready to do 20 acres with that 2-bottom plow! You should have seen the look on his face. He was one happy camper. We learned a lot--thanks to you fellas. The starter doesn't seem to work--that's why we towed it in the first place and had to hand-crank it yesterday. Is there a way to troubleshoot that? Thanks in advance, from this mechanic in training.
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