cghbuilder86
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Hi, I had a post on here a couple weeks ago trying to figure out why my tractor has been dying. I figured the generator may be weak because my battery had been going down. I had just been using a portable jump starter to get it started and it finally occurred to me that if the battery is not charging it could be causing the tractor to die. So I bought a generator rebuild kit and cleaned up all the contacts, put in new brushes, bearing and sleeve. Put the generator back on the tractor and reconnected it except leaving the belt off of the pulley. I did the motoring test by connecting car jumper cable(dont have any small wires with clips) one from field stud on the bottom of generator to tractor frame, and the other from negative battery post to the armature stud on the end of the generator. Nothing, no spark, the wheel wont turn, no sound. Is there any way I can test the generator itself without using any of the tractor, incase there is a problem in the tractor wiring or the regulator?