STOPS RUNNING

loota

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restored a te20 most all new parts 6volt. starter push button on dash one wire to frame the other to solenoid. push the button it starts let the button go it stops running. keep holding the button and it stays running let it go it stops. any help !!! stuck open Bendix ???? I put on another carb same thing
 
I suspect that your problem is electrical. Not fuel. You say restored, so that means that there has been no modifications of any sort done. Everything if factory original and no upgrades. So, with that in mind, I would suspect either your flooded or a weak ignition switch.
If you were running a solenoid then the voltage feed wire to the coil in the run position is open. But you said "restored" so no solenoid.
 
It's an electrical problem.

Revisit the wiring to the coil. Somehow the coil is loosing power when the start button is released.

I believe that originally had a start lever, not a push button. You may want to consider going back to the start lever so it will have neutral safety feature.
 
Your wiring is wrong like Steve said. You need to run hot wire from key switch to coil so when you turn key on coil is hot. You have hot wire going to push button.
 
Early Ford cars and trucks had the same set-up,full voltage to start and then in the on position you had resistor voltage to the points to prolong point life,make sure you have a hot wire to the ballast resistor in the run position after the switch returns from the spring loaded start position.
 
"push the button it starts let the button go it stops running. keep holding the button and it stays running let it go it stops"

If the supply for ignition switch is on the starter side of the solenoid it will only supply power to the ignition when solenoid is engaged.

Switch supply power must come from battery side of solenoid /starter switch
 
Bet you took a bunch of wire off and you got the ignition power wire on the wrong side of the solenoid. To prove that simply hot wire it. Run a wire form the ignition side of the battery to the ignition side of the coil and try to start it. If it starts and stay running you have a wire In the wrong place simple as that
 
I ain't never seen a solenoid on a TE.
I have a TO that has a solenoid.
I added it.
It even still has the original starter button that works with the shift handle and is part of the starter circuit.
Then again, the wife's machine has not been "restored".
It was re-manufactured, or even redesigned. Not restored, even though every bolt in that machine has been turned.
I did however remove the tractor meter and change it to 12V.
That was a bit of a mistake that I should put back to 6V.
Maybe a 6V genny body to run the proofmeter and wired 12V internally.
Like I said, her's is not "restored".
 
He is the one who said it has a solenoid but either way if it does or does not have one he has to have the ignition power wire on the wrong side of what ever he has be it a solenoid or starter switch
 
Hiya Old!
He said it was "restored". Not modified. if it has been modified from original, it is not "restored". It is then either re-manufactured or re-made or even re-machined. Not "restored". Same goes with the over used term "Barn find". Barn find being unmolested and still in the barn where it has been stored for a great number of years and potentially covered in a good thick layer of dust. Barn find does not mean it starts and runs or just got a wash job. Then again, I am not Old like you are. I past that number up so fast I scarcely remember it. Enjoy life, slow down and look around. Here I am in the "red zone" already. Oops.
There are several people who have told him he wired his restored solenoid incorrectly, as I did in my original post at the bottom.
God Bless!
 
I hate the term restored since 90% are never really restore because fit they are that means they are now just like they where when it rolled out of the factory. Every thing has to be to factory specs. etc.

Sort of like a car show I went to. Guy had a 50s some car with aluminum valve covers. I called him out on it and boy did he get mad because he knew I knew he was pulling a fast one. He told me yes it was original and I told him it cannot be they did not put valve cover on them like the one it had from the factor so it cannot be original
 
He did go on and on about how he had taken it to other cars shows and no one called him out on it and then said you most be some kind or purest and I told him yes I was just go look at the 1935 JD-B on original steel wheels that is sitting on that trailer over there. He said to me something like so what and I said can to you tell me where that car was 5 years after it was made and he said no and I told him well I can tell you where that tractor was and who owned it and where it farmed and that I had to owners manual that came with it when new and he gave up and walked away. But it is a tractor I played on when I was kid and my grand father got it in 1940
 

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