Re: Farmall 340 Not Starting

Posted by Larry Hardesty on July 26, 2006 at 21:05:31 from (70.96.154.152):

In Reply to: Re: Farmall 340 Not Starting posted by El Toro on July 26, 2006 at 17:51:01:

Hal, Got it done. I appreciate your help and Bigdog from the Farmall Tractor listserve. He helped me figure out it was not the new coil. I went into Case-IH and took the old coil and the old condenser. They checked the old condenser and it was bad. They could not check the coil but I went to a O'Reilly Auto parts and they checked it. The old coil seemed good. So the original problem was probably the old condenser.

I had started out thinking bad condenser and had gotten one last Friday from Case-IH. When that did not work, I then caught a coil from Case-IH on Monday. When that did not work, I was baffled.

Now I checked according to what Bigdog told me and my test light would not go out when it was connected between the + on the coil and the primary wire side of the distributor, which indicates it is a problem in the distributor. I thought I had a ground in there. I took the points out and the new condenser that I had gotten last Friday from Case-IH. I checked the condenser as they did at Case-IH and the new condenser was bad. I had gotten another one at Advance Auto today for $3+ just in case (versus the Case-IH price ..since they sell the condenser only with the points).

Well, next I put in the new condenser I got today and put everything back together. Turned over the tractor key and hit the starter (for about the millionth time since I started trying to trace this all down) and she fired right up.

Don't know why the new condenser from Case-IH was bad, and it would have been nice not to have purchased a coil. I noticed all are cheaper from TSC but don't know if the quality is different from Case-IH.

Anyway, nice sound to hear the tractor run again.

Thanks to everyone for all the help.

Larry H.

Replies:

• Re: Farmall 340 Not Starting El Toro 03:55:44 07/27/06 (2)
  • Re: Farmall 340 Not Starting Larry Hardesty 06:29:53 07/27/06 (1)
    • Re: Farmall 340 Not Starting El Toro 07:28:25 07/27/06 (0)

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