BAD BAD WINTER

My '52 A has been very finicky over the past few years. I just got the carburetor tweeked up and put an electronic ignition it. Ran nice when it was warm out. Battery died, charged it, put it back in fired right up. The tractor has been outside for a while, since the beginning of spring I really have no good indoor storage. My buddy is letting me use his storage container for the winter. So we put the tractor in the container after I charged the batter. Tonight 17 degrees. We went there to start it, nothing. BUT the lights lit up, not the battery. Figured out the starter is frozen from ice. Great. Is there any way to get the water out of there? Thanks guys.
 
That's a good idea. Sunday it's supposed to warm up go into the upper 30s low 40s so it might defrost a bit, don't have time to get there till then. So after she warms up I'll take it out and try that. Thank you.
 
There is a small magnetic heater you can buy -measures 2 inch X 4 inch approx. stick the heater on the side of the starter and plug it in. This should thaw it out.

Ken
 
Does your tractor have the starter cover on the bottom of the main case? If it does it may be full of water or a chunk of ice. Your starter may be frozen up. I know a guy that his got full of water and shorted the starter out. There's a hole in the flywheel cover that supposed to let the water out. Yours may be stopped up. I run mine with the starter cover off . Take the cover off and get some heat to it and go from there .
 

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