Posted by DScott on July 21, 2009 at 09:37:20 from (70.43.242.34):
In Reply to: Ford 8N shuts down posted by Jeff Christner on July 21, 2009 at 08:56:10:
Jeff Christner said: (quoted from post at 08:56:10 07/21/09) Hello - I have an early 40"s Ford 8N. Runs OK most of the time, however, when I run it for 20-30 minutes, it shuts down and then won"t fire again when I turn it over until it cools. Then I can restart it, run for a little while, then it shuts down again. I thought maybe it was a thermostat or something, but don"t find anything like that on it. Water/coolant seems to be circulating OK in the radiator. Anybody have any good ideas? Thanks! Jeff
My 8N did exactly that for awhile and it took me a a couple of months to figure out that it was the ignition switch. I installed new switch and no more problem. I hear that a bad coil do this also. You can put a jumper wire from one terminal of the switch to the other to see if it eliminates the problem.
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