Re: Replacing points on a Ford 3000

Posted by Bob Jarvis on May 25, 2004 at 09:39:14 from (67.98.18.66):

In Reply to: Replacing points on a Ford 3000 posted by Sam Hopkins on May 24, 2004 at 11:21:55:

Check to be sure your electrical connections are tight all the way around. Last spring I had a helluva day with my 3000 - started it up as usual, started to do some plowing, and it just up and died. I'm a little hesitant about working on this tractor (it ain't broke, and I'm pretty good at breaking things :-) so I figured I was out of luck for the day if it was anything complicated, but went ahead and poked around anyways. What I found was that the nut that holds that battery lead to the stud on the starter solenoid (I think that's what it is, anyways) had backed off ever-so-slightly - as soon as I tightened it back up (no more than 1/4 turn) the tractor fired up and ran fine. After a couple more episodes like this I eventually used a wire brush to gently remove all the old cruddy paint and gunk from the battery terminal and the stud (which looks like it's either copper-plated or solid copper), replaced the nut with one that has a nylon insert to keep it from backing off, and then coated everything with conductive grease (spark plug anti-seize compound) to ensure conductivity. Don't know if this is anything like your problem but it takes almost no time to check.

Also, if you're going to replace the points you might just as well replace the condenser, rotor, distributor cap, spark plugs, and wires too. Do 'em all done at once and then you don't have to look for anything else. Just a thought.

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