I've worked 2 days on this thing and cannot wrap my mind on whats going on, so I've triple checked every thing. Here is what I found ..
Tractor has been converted with a kit to one wire alt., 12 V ,neg. ground, with ceramic resistor in line to front mounted square coil. Not sure whether it is a 12V or 6V coil. but that should not matter.
Did a " tune up ", new plugs, points, cap/ rotor. Tractor did run before, tractor turns over fine, with points opening and closing, but wont start up. If I put a jumper wire from battery to the coil it fires up in one revolution. Remove wire after it starts and it continues to run.
The battery is 12.7 static charge, 14.7 charge rate from alt. while running and shows below CCA according to battery tester. Hence I added battery boost to the equation and still didn't make and difference. So, will a new battery solve this or have I missed something simple ?? What the heck is going on ??
Tractor has been converted with a kit to one wire alt., 12 V ,neg. ground, with ceramic resistor in line to front mounted square coil. Not sure whether it is a 12V or 6V coil. but that should not matter.
Did a " tune up ", new plugs, points, cap/ rotor. Tractor did run before, tractor turns over fine, with points opening and closing, but wont start up. If I put a jumper wire from battery to the coil it fires up in one revolution. Remove wire after it starts and it continues to run.
The battery is 12.7 static charge, 14.7 charge rate from alt. while running and shows below CCA according to battery tester. Hence I added battery boost to the equation and still didn't make and difference. So, will a new battery solve this or have I missed something simple ?? What the heck is going on ??