rininger85
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Hello, I have my dad's Ford NAA Jubilee for a while and trying to figure out what just happened to it... The tractor has been sitting on our property in TN since my dad bought it several years ago... A couple years ago someone broke into our garage we built for storing the tractor and stole it... It was gone for 2 years but this summer the police found it and dad got it back. He didn't want to leave it sitting on the property to get stolen again so I brought it home to MI to use it for pushing snow for the winter since he has no use or place to store it where he lives in FL...
The tractor has had no problem starting up until now... Pull the choke push the starter button it fires right up no problems. Well I get it back to MI and find out that the sluggish hydraulics are even worse in freezing temperatures which we rarely had in TN any time we we're using it down there... I checked the hydraulic fluid and they looked like baby poo. So I drained them and refilled them. Hydraulics worked good til I parked it, went out the next time and they wouldn't work even after letting it run half an hour or so to warm up... Pull the dipstick fluids look crappy again, Ok so maybe it's a shared sump with the transmission... Look at trans fluids yup crappy... Drain both reservoirs and refill... Put air in through the dipstick to pressurize the system and get hydraulic pump primed... Everything works good.
So now that it's working I decided to take it for a drive out back... I knew I had not closed the windows on my hunting blind for the year yet so drove out to do that instead of walking... Tractor idles fine while I'm doing that, get back on it and decided I would use the blade to knock down weeds to make a nicer walkway to get back there, lowered the blade but kept it just above dirt so I wouldn't be dragging dirt.. drove back towards house, get to edge of the yard and the whole front end of the tractor shakes like crazy and stalls out. It shook hard enough that the wire to the alternator pulled out of the connector. I push the wire back in figuring I'll address that with a proper wire/connector later.... Try starting the tractor and it just cranks nonstop without trying to fire.
I added more gas because I know when the gas gets to a certain point it doesn't feed right even though you can still see gas in the tank... Not the issue.... The fan is spinning so it's turning over fine... I decided to pull the distributor cap off and turned it over and the rotor does not move.
I pulled the distributor out and the gear looks fine, and what I can see in the distributor hole looks fine... But I think this has to be the problem no spark because the distributor doesn't turn. So now I'm looking for guidance to what I need to do next...my thought is it had to have broke a timing gears or something otherwise the distributor would turn... What should I do next... Pull the oil pan to look for broken parts?
The tractor has had no problem starting up until now... Pull the choke push the starter button it fires right up no problems. Well I get it back to MI and find out that the sluggish hydraulics are even worse in freezing temperatures which we rarely had in TN any time we we're using it down there... I checked the hydraulic fluid and they looked like baby poo. So I drained them and refilled them. Hydraulics worked good til I parked it, went out the next time and they wouldn't work even after letting it run half an hour or so to warm up... Pull the dipstick fluids look crappy again, Ok so maybe it's a shared sump with the transmission... Look at trans fluids yup crappy... Drain both reservoirs and refill... Put air in through the dipstick to pressurize the system and get hydraulic pump primed... Everything works good.
So now that it's working I decided to take it for a drive out back... I knew I had not closed the windows on my hunting blind for the year yet so drove out to do that instead of walking... Tractor idles fine while I'm doing that, get back on it and decided I would use the blade to knock down weeds to make a nicer walkway to get back there, lowered the blade but kept it just above dirt so I wouldn't be dragging dirt.. drove back towards house, get to edge of the yard and the whole front end of the tractor shakes like crazy and stalls out. It shook hard enough that the wire to the alternator pulled out of the connector. I push the wire back in figuring I'll address that with a proper wire/connector later.... Try starting the tractor and it just cranks nonstop without trying to fire.
I added more gas because I know when the gas gets to a certain point it doesn't feed right even though you can still see gas in the tank... Not the issue.... The fan is spinning so it's turning over fine... I decided to pull the distributor cap off and turned it over and the rotor does not move.
I pulled the distributor out and the gear looks fine, and what I can see in the distributor hole looks fine... But I think this has to be the problem no spark because the distributor doesn't turn. So now I'm looking for guidance to what I need to do next...my thought is it had to have broke a timing gears or something otherwise the distributor would turn... What should I do next... Pull the oil pan to look for broken parts?