52 8N Electrical Partially Solved

(quoted from post at 19:49:46 11/10/12) Thanks to all who have helped regarding brother's 52 8N electrical problems. Special thanks to OLD for his "hot wire" suggestion.

Coil forward is now fine. Tractor starts well and runs fine - with electrical circuit/devices from coil forward. Problem was with the side post of distributor. I now have 3 sets of points and condensers in the trash from burning 'em up while trying to find and solve problem.

Tractor will not start when remove jumper and go back to all wiring and devices. Actually get a 6v reading input to coil. But tractor will not start unless "hot wire" as mentioned above.



Next step is to check out devices and wiring from coil input back - one at the time - to find the last, or at least one of the last, problems. Will begin Monday.

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(quoted from post at 07:17:02 11/11/12) "Well, you can go dig those condensers out of the trash for sure as you did not "burn them up" & probably the points, too, as a short in the distributor feed through would have prevented the points from ever switching any load current."

Please explain further, JMOR.


Are you saying, in effect, that the current would have stopped at the point of the short thus nothing downstream of that point would have been damaged? Hmmm? Plugs don't spark with such a short, thus no current to plugs. Hmm? Makes sense if I'm understanding you correctly.

Not sure that I want to mess with a currently operating system to see if they work; but may dig 'em out and put a question mark on the package???

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