My first post. I"m at my wit"s end, and they didn"t go very far anyhow.
So I"m trying to get a 1951 Ford 8N running again after 10 or so years. Converted to 12V, with a front mount distributor and single wire alternator. Initially it "started" fine but didn"t run. Now about when I get it purring nice, starting system stops working.
Started with a chattering of the solenoid. Charged battery. My brother-in-law took out the starter and pulled it apart so I took it in and had it rebuilt.
Found that I could start it if I jumped with a running car, but would die if I took off the jumper cables. Fairly new battery tested good however.
So it seems something was grounding out. The starter post read as ground so called the rebuild shop and they said its supposed to because of the brushes.
So last night I replaced the 12V four post solenoid with the 311006. Everything was hot! Hooked the ground back up to the thumb switch on tranny (to S, like some posts said). Still, there is 0 resistance across the two large terminals with nothing on the solenoid, or with wires hooked up. My old solenoid has infinite resistance across the two large terminals.
I think these are two different issues, but I"m not making progress in understanding either of them!
Thanks for any explanations, I"m not quite getting how all this is supposed to work on my tractor, even reading through the archives.
So I"m trying to get a 1951 Ford 8N running again after 10 or so years. Converted to 12V, with a front mount distributor and single wire alternator. Initially it "started" fine but didn"t run. Now about when I get it purring nice, starting system stops working.
Started with a chattering of the solenoid. Charged battery. My brother-in-law took out the starter and pulled it apart so I took it in and had it rebuilt.
Found that I could start it if I jumped with a running car, but would die if I took off the jumper cables. Fairly new battery tested good however.
So it seems something was grounding out. The starter post read as ground so called the rebuild shop and they said its supposed to because of the brushes.
So last night I replaced the 12V four post solenoid with the 311006. Everything was hot! Hooked the ground back up to the thumb switch on tranny (to S, like some posts said). Still, there is 0 resistance across the two large terminals with nothing on the solenoid, or with wires hooked up. My old solenoid has infinite resistance across the two large terminals.
I think these are two different issues, but I"m not making progress in understanding either of them!
Thanks for any explanations, I"m not quite getting how all this is supposed to work on my tractor, even reading through the archives.