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Bill, I pretty much agree with Peter's good advice since that wash job may have left moisture condensed or accumulated under the distributor cap or other critical places. While at it with a hair dryer under the cap, I would inspect the points and replace if badly burned or pitted or heavy gray oxide coated,,,,, ,, and at least run a clean dry shop cloth between its points,,,,, ,I would also remove and clean n dry all the coil n plug wire terminals,,,,, ,,,,, then, to see if at least the coil is firing, remove the coil wire from the distributor cap (leave coil end intact into coil) and place its bare end to within 1/8 inch or so away from tractors steel/frame, turn her on n crank her over and see if a good blue spark jumps that gap??? If not, place a test lamp or voltmeter on the coils lil high input (NOT to distributor) side terminal, turn on the ignition, AND THERE MUST BE HOT BATTERY VOLTAGE THERE. If not look for an open wire from the switch to the coil or a blown fuse or a bad ignition switch. If you hot wire it by running a live hot wire to the coils high input terminal and she fires then, you found the problem. Hopefully shes got got moisture !!!!! ! John T
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