130 farmall

khouse6

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tractor started right up this year;; ran about 30 minutes or so and quit. started up again and ran less time. etc., etc., until it would hardly run 30 seconds. sounded like it was running out of gas; drained gas tank, drained carb., put in fresh gas. new points, new condenser, new coil wire. etc, etc., running out of choices at this point. 3-4 days working with this tractor, part time. finally yesterday, i hot wired it. it ran like brand new. continued to trouble shoot and found a loose screw on the coil side of the ignition switch. 3 seconds with a screwdriver fixed it. whew
 
Sometimes it can be the simplest things that cause the big problems. On my Farmall 140 (which has always been a great runner) with a Woods belly mower I use to keep the area outside the yard around the house in check during the growing season started running somewhat less then par the past couple of years. Tore into it like you did a few weeks ago replacing about everything on the ignition side and think the real culprits were the spark plug wires and the distributor cap. The cap was one of those with aluminum contacts where the spark plug and coil wires plug in and the corrosion was just rampant. Replaced the wires, cap, rotor, points and she runs like it did in the past again. Several years ago when the tractor was running like a champ went to start it one day and it wouldn't hit a lick. Got the VOM out and started doing some basic checks on current to the coil and found that being the issue. Checked back through the switch and sure enough had a push-pull switch that had failed - replaced the switch and sure enough it was like a new tractor again. First time I've ever had a problem with a switch on my Farmalls but it does happen, Hal.
 

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