Help! New points, still no spark

Jflood

New User
Hey there, hopefully someone can help. I have a 9N that I am trying to get running again as it has been sitting for about 10 years. I have replaced the battery, cleaned the fuel tank and replaced sediment bowl and am getting fuel through the carb. I have great compression, good crank from starter and have also cleaned oil filters. The only problem is I have no spark! I have new alternator, replaced the spark plugs, spark plug cables, new points and new coil and still do not have spark. Also, my ammeter is dead so this is not helping me. Any suggestions? Thank you for the advice!
 
Replace the ammeter,..all the juice goes trough that first either way.
And maybe replace the condenser as well
 
If the amp meter is bad. You may not have power at the coil. Check to see if you have power at the coil with a
test light.

If you have power at the coil. I'm guessing your points
are dirty. Did you clean them after you installed them?
 
Run a jumper wire from the battery to the coil and open and close the points with a screwdriver. Quick check if you do not have a test light. If you have spark it should run with the jumper as well.
 
Just to let you know the amp meter if factory on the N series ford used a meter that clamps to the wire so not real connection so if bad you will still have power to every thing
 
Here are a couple of simple test you can do. Key off run a wire from the ignition side of the battery to the coil. You should see a little spark when you hook that wire up to the coil. If you do not then the points are open or you have dirty point. If you do get a spark turn the engine till the points are open and do that again. If you get a spark then you have a short in the distributor which is common no spark problem with the front mount distributor.
By the way of you post this down in the 9N/2N/8N forum your likely to get more answers then up here
 
I forgot about those original amp meters with the loop on the back for the wire to pass through. In all my years of going to auctions and messing with Ford's. I've only ever seen two that still had the original meter.
 
Ya not lots of them around but many still have them working and not working. I have learned any more to look tractor over real good to figure out why on may or may not run. Learned one easy test is a simple hot wire from the battery to the coil. If you have a small spark good chance it will fire up or try if you have good gas
 
that was my trouble some times it would start and some times not I could wiggle the wire on the ammeter and it would start (meant to get to it just did not) . don't do this I did it for about a year one day I wiggled it and the tractor caught fire easy to rewire but it took out the alternator, ammeter and melted the battery
live and learn
 
That means i did not have a factory amp meter on it hen since the factory one used a past threw wire amp meter which has no true electrical connections
 

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