Ford 601 Workmaster Gas Help

JoshuaGA · Sep 4, 2008

cutting hay tonight with it and all the sudden it started skipping badly, dropped two cylinders, had no power. Gauges all good, choking didn't help, new sparkplugs recently. Tractor is all origional. What happened?

JoshuaGA

Anonymous-0 · Sep 4, 2008

If choking didn't help- not a fuel issue. Sounds like electrical. Dropped two cylinders?- pull each plug wire off, one at a time, no change in sound- those cyl are not firing. Just fixed my D17 last nite- fouled plug because of no continuity in a plug wire. Could be a cracked dist cap, poor contacts, weak coil, multiple minor issues.

HCooke · Sep 4, 2008

Some things I would check -- good spark on missing cylinder?? If so something is wrong in those cylinders -- bad head gasket?? Do a compression test. If there is no spark on missing cylinder something is wring in secondary ignition -- such as bad dist cap, cracked spark plug wires, point gap closed up (it opens just enuf to fire on 2 cylinders but not the others).

MarkB_MI · Sep 4, 2008

Check your points to see that they aren't burned up and that they're gapped properly.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 4, 2008

My 641 got to missing and would not pull, I check points, dist cap, wires, finally put new condenser in distributor and has run fine since. Might be worth checking condenser.

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