Carolina boy
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This morning I ran my TO30 for about 3 hours discing up a future food plot. It ran fine. This afternoon I tried to start and when I hit the starter I
saw an arc up front near the starter. For the first time I could not get it started. It would not fire after that. No fire to the plugs. The coil had
rotated in the bracket and shorted one of the connectors to the starter housing. The points are toast, and there is a hole in the rotor button. When I
checked with the voltmeter, I am getting battery voltage, 12.73 volts, at the lead on the side of the distributor. This has been converted to a 12
volt system. Am I right in assuming that downstream of the 2 ohm resistor, at the side of the distributor, that I should be reading 1/2 battery
voltage, or about 6.4 volts? This has been my understanding, and if that's correct, that would explain why this happened.
saw an arc up front near the starter. For the first time I could not get it started. It would not fire after that. No fire to the plugs. The coil had
rotated in the bracket and shorted one of the connectors to the starter housing. The points are toast, and there is a hole in the rotor button. When I
checked with the voltmeter, I am getting battery voltage, 12.73 volts, at the lead on the side of the distributor. This has been converted to a 12
volt system. Am I right in assuming that downstream of the 2 ohm resistor, at the side of the distributor, that I should be reading 1/2 battery
voltage, or about 6.4 volts? This has been my understanding, and if that's correct, that would explain why this happened.
