maxwell99

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This afternoon I was discing with my 1957 TO35 Ferguson.

All of a sudden, the motor just started missing, I thought it was going to die, I pushed the clutch in, but just as sudden as it started missing, it caught again and ran fine.

Had no more problems, weird, it ran fine as I finished discing and drove home with no problems. As I took off the implement and drove back to the barn the tractor ran fine with no loss of power.

But, my luck the problem will revisit me in the future.

Anyone experience this type problem, if so what was the problem,
Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks, Fred

I checked the fuel cutoff bowel, it appeared to be clear and clean.
 
Might drain the carb, see what comes out. That will give you an idea if it's fuel related. Look for volume and contamination.

Does it still have points? They could be getting ready to fail.

Take a look at the plugs, look for anything abnormal, fouling, strange colors, deposits, too hot, too cold, etc.
 
I will take the drain plug out of the carburetor, catch the fuel, see what it looks like. I have a metal inline fuel filter between fuel cutoff valve and carburetor, it was changed early this spring, but who knows could have got some trash in line.

Also need to check points, plugs, condenser, it's been awhile since I gave it a good tuneup. However, it starts good, pulls good and idles at 375-400 rpms.
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I just remembered, yesterday when I came home from discing the truck patch, when I pushed the throttle up to slow the motor, it backfired.

has almost never done that, but then ran fine after the one backfire, and ran well today until the one incident of missing for a short period of time.

Probably needs a full tuneup.
 
The inline filter could be a restriction. Gravity flow fuel really likes a fine screen better, like what's over the sediment bowl.
 
Steve,
I pulled a plug, looked good.
I cleaned the fuel cutoff sentiment bowel, it had a small amount of dirt/trash.

The cutoff valve has a filter screen.

The points looked OK, however I did clean the rotor button.

As we speak tractor is running fine, if I have more problems, I will give it a full tuneup.
 

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