I have a '46 H that I bought in 2008. It's running great, although it's taken me 12 years to get it to this point. I wasn't much of a mechanic when I started, but I'm at least OK now. It's 6V pos ground, gas.
There is one thing that I have never figured out, that has been an intermittent issue from the get go.
Sometimes the starter simply clicks without cranking. Battery is 100%. One of the first things I did was replace all the cables with 00 gauge or bigger (pos a little bigger than neg, but both nice and fat). Connections are all clean. Nothing wrong with the starter itself (I have two, one new, and both do the same thing).
To fix temporarily is easy: Take it off, hook it up to a power source, and spin it for a second, then reinstall.
But I cannot figure out why it does this, or how to keep it from doing it.
The last thing I fixed was the generator, which never worked - the whole time I've had the tractor I just wound up charging the battery every time I used it. During fixing the generator I learned about polarizing the generator, which I haven't had to do on the generator itself, but the problem sounds a lot like the problem I'm having with the starter, and as I understand it, the generator and the starter are similar in terms of how they work.
Haven't gotten much farther than that.
Ideal would be to keep it from happening, but failing that, would be nice to be able to connect some wires and flash the starter without having to take it off every time.
I looked for this specific issue in the forums and maybe I missed it, but didn't see where it was mentioned specifically.
There is one thing that I have never figured out, that has been an intermittent issue from the get go.
Sometimes the starter simply clicks without cranking. Battery is 100%. One of the first things I did was replace all the cables with 00 gauge or bigger (pos a little bigger than neg, but both nice and fat). Connections are all clean. Nothing wrong with the starter itself (I have two, one new, and both do the same thing).
To fix temporarily is easy: Take it off, hook it up to a power source, and spin it for a second, then reinstall.
But I cannot figure out why it does this, or how to keep it from doing it.
The last thing I fixed was the generator, which never worked - the whole time I've had the tractor I just wound up charging the battery every time I used it. During fixing the generator I learned about polarizing the generator, which I haven't had to do on the generator itself, but the problem sounds a lot like the problem I'm having with the starter, and as I understand it, the generator and the starter are similar in terms of how they work.
Haven't gotten much farther than that.
Ideal would be to keep it from happening, but failing that, would be nice to be able to connect some wires and flash the starter without having to take it off every time.
I looked for this specific issue in the forums and maybe I missed it, but didn't see where it was mentioned specifically.