Don't know if there is any help for me but I thought I would see since I am not very mechanically inclined.
I have what I believe is a 58 to-35. I guess it was called a to-35 in the late 50's. I have owned it for about 10 years but have used it very little. I left it out in the rain last year and it hasn't started since. I did get it pushed into the shed and removed the distributor cap and dried everything out. Gas was replaced. Removed air tower and soaked in kerosene and replaced the oil in bottom of air filter. Still would not start. Just left it alone until now.
Now I am not getting any spark to plugs. It has a pull knob for the on/off switch. I took that off and tested it with my cheap multimeter and it was bad so I replaced that. Still no fire.
After reading some of the posts on this board, I thought I would look at the coil. The coil says use with external resistor. I do not find one anywhere on the tractor. It has been converted to a 12 volt system. I don't know if it should have ever run with that coil and I was just lucky that it did or if the resistor is hidden somewhere.
I know just throwing parts at it is a bad thing but I did replace the coil with one from Tractor Supply that does not need an external resistor. I still have no sparks to the plugs. I am checking it at the plugs since I am doing this by myself and it is the only place close enough that I can watch and turn the motor over.
I don't have a problem with changing this over to an electronic ignition system is anybody feels this would solve my problems.
If I got a voltmeter with clips instead of probes on the end, is there anywhere useful I can test for volts?
Sorry this is so long but I thought I would try to elicit some advice and see where to go from here.
Thanks
John
I have what I believe is a 58 to-35. I guess it was called a to-35 in the late 50's. I have owned it for about 10 years but have used it very little. I left it out in the rain last year and it hasn't started since. I did get it pushed into the shed and removed the distributor cap and dried everything out. Gas was replaced. Removed air tower and soaked in kerosene and replaced the oil in bottom of air filter. Still would not start. Just left it alone until now.
Now I am not getting any spark to plugs. It has a pull knob for the on/off switch. I took that off and tested it with my cheap multimeter and it was bad so I replaced that. Still no fire.
After reading some of the posts on this board, I thought I would look at the coil. The coil says use with external resistor. I do not find one anywhere on the tractor. It has been converted to a 12 volt system. I don't know if it should have ever run with that coil and I was just lucky that it did or if the resistor is hidden somewhere.
I know just throwing parts at it is a bad thing but I did replace the coil with one from Tractor Supply that does not need an external resistor. I still have no sparks to the plugs. I am checking it at the plugs since I am doing this by myself and it is the only place close enough that I can watch and turn the motor over.
I don't have a problem with changing this over to an electronic ignition system is anybody feels this would solve my problems.
If I got a voltmeter with clips instead of probes on the end, is there anywhere useful I can test for volts?
Sorry this is so long but I thought I would try to elicit some advice and see where to go from here.
Thanks
John