Trent Couch
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I have just finished rebuilding the engine on my 1949 Farmall M did everything to the engine new sleeves, pistons, rings I had my crank turned, Flywheel resurfaced and head re done with new valves. I?ve got a lot of money in this thing and I?m real anxious to hear it run but I can?t get it to run I think it?s a timing issue. I rebuilt the carb and I know it?s getting gas to it and it was sparking but now it?s not. So here?s what I did, I took apart the distributor at the point where it?s like a drive-dog type connection (see pic) and I?m afraid that when putting the distributor back together I may have turned the distributor 180 degrees off lining it back up into distributor drive. So I turned the crank to TDC on #1 cylinder and the crank pulley was at the first mark with the little point from block pointing at it. I noticed that my rotary button was off so when I was here I took the distributor off at the two bolts on the side (the bolts where you can turn distributor for timing) and turned the gear to where #1 point was lined up with the rotary button point. When I done this the tractor kept hitting but never started. So I took off the dust cover at my distributor and made sure the point gap was right at .020 and I adjusted it some. I double checked my timing and tuned the distributor a hair. Now the tractor will not even hit and it blowing oil up out of the air breather. I know I have got all the timing marks on the gears in the front cover lined up so if anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate them!