51 8N Electrical problem

I live in a small town dominated by the John Deere dealer. There few Fords sold here, and the local dealer has become quite independent. They treat you like they are doing you a favor to work on your tractor, and will never give you a specific time when they can come and fix your tractor. Also, today I went to the Ford dealership locally at 11:24am and they were already closed (the hours on the door stated that they would be open until noon). So, I like to fix what I can and give them as little business as possible.

Can anyone help.

Thanks,

JA

You need to know what made the squeeling noise????
It could be that the generator is trying to lock up because of a bad bearing etc. You can get the generator at the auto parts store too. Rebuilt or new.

You can jump it off with 12 volts from a car etc. by folling these directions. When jump starting an N tractor with 12 volts it not necessary to hook the 12 volts to the 6 volts battery at all. As a matter of fact I strongly reccomend against it.
Instead hook the 12 volts directly to the frame of the tractor for the ground and with the transmission in neutral and out of the way of the wheels of the tractor so you don't get run over touch the other cable from the 12 volt source to the post on the starter.
By doing it this way you don't even have to worry about the polarity of the batterys or which cable you have to ground or positive to the frame or the starter as the 6 volt systme is not intered into at all with the 12 volts. Just turn on the switch and touch the hot cable to the starter post and it will go.

Watch the oil pressure when it starts to make sure that the squeeling you heard was not the crankshaft.