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Can,t get my wd to turn over fast enough to start.Battery has full charg,new cables,all connections are clean.Starter just barley tries to turn over when engaged.Any help appreciated,thanks,Don.
 
6 volt or 12 volts?? If 6 volts and you installed the 2 gauge auto type battery cables that is likely to be your problem. On 6 volts you need 0 or 00 battery cables. But lack of info makes it hard for us o help you help your self please fill in the blanks
 
It is a six volt system. The new cables are the heavy ones.I took the starter off,grounded it, hooked it up to a battery (six volt) and it worked.Could it be bad brushes? Hope this helps. Don.
 
I found out the hard way..........wd/wd45 have starter ground problems. Run a jumper from the ground terminal of battery directly to the starter and try it again. simple check and maybe your problem. chuck
 
I agree with what Chuck said about the ground. When in the housing and that one pointy dirty set screw being the ground connection sometime it does not make a good connection. If it is bright-clean metal to metal and your cables are sized like Old says than maybe it time to get the starter rebuilt or replaced.
Cleddy
 
I've put this on here before but if your points, condenser, or coil are weak with a 6 volt you can have a starter that seems to turn over slow or not at all because there is not strong enough fire to help the starter kick over. Also check your timing. Leon
 
Some old tricks that you can maybe try.
#1 tap on the starter with a hammer. Do not whack it super hard just a few taps.
#2 pull the starter off and carefully rotate the back end cap 180 and then put the long bolts back in. What that does is puts the top side of the rear bushing down. The bushing wears the most at the bottom so if it is getting bad that some times will help it for a little while
 
Thanks to everyone who offered to help.I tried all of the ideas with no luck.I removed the starter again,an hooked it up to a battery,and it worked fine.Maybe thats because theres no load on it?What would happen if I put it back on,an hooked it up to a 12 volt battery? Don.
 
Thanks to everyone who offered to help.I tried all of the ideas with no luck.I removed the starter again,an hooked it up to a battery,and it worked fine.Maybe thats because theres no load on it?What would happen if I put it back on,an hooked it up to a 12 volt battery? Don.
 
If you put a 12v battery on a distributor set up for 6, I'm pretty sure bad things happen to the coil or points or something. And you'll want to unhook the 6v genny, or you might let the smoke out of it. Plan on converting the dist to 12v, because once you start on 12v you will never go back to 6.
AaronSEIA
 
We been using our 2 WD's and now a WD45 with 12 volts for over 30 years and have never burned up a 6 volt starter. They turn over real good and as long as tractor starts okay it will work fine. I don't trust the locking the brake so turn tractor off more often than not to make sure it stays where it is suspose to.
Try it and let us know if it works? If it still don't work than you need a different starter or a rebuild.cleddy
 
Yeah we unhooked the generator and just used a fresh battery all the time. Coil & point-condenser take the 12 volts pretty good but 6 volt lights do not. You will be surprised how many starts a good battery has in it. It is Jerry-rigging at it's best.cleddy
 
Thank,s cleddy and all others for helping me out.I put a 12volt battery in the old girl and it starts up an runs fine.I don,t have any lights so no worry there. I ,ll unhook the jenny and i,am ready to go.Many many thanks to all. Don.
 

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