Cooked Points

Jeff NWOH

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Neighbor has an old Bobcat with a Wisconsin engine. It had been running a little rough and finally basically quit. I think he got his money's worth out of these points.

The top of the ignition coil was partially pushed out of the can. My guess is that it was a coil requiring a ballast resistor, which the machine doesn't have. Funny thing is that the gap really didn't look to bad. I assume the previous owners had adjusted to compensate for the lack of contact surface.

New coil, points, and condenser and the old cat is back up and running.
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(quoted from post at 21:23:45 08/20/18) Or someone left the key turned on, and the points were closed.

"504" likely nailed it.

A customer of mine recently had his city grandkids out to the farm mowing with a DEERE 214.

They ran it out of gas, and left the ignition switch "on", killing the battery.

It got pushed up to the shop, and, with the ignition switch still "on", they slapped a battery charger on it and went home for the night.Points look like yours, and coil spewed oil and tar out through the cooling louvers in the side panel, all the way to the ground!
 
Yep, sitting with sw on and points closed, is 3X the run current and 9X the Watts(heat) into the coil & the sucker can't take it!
 

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