oldford1710
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- Jul 30, 2011
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- Ford 1700
Hello,
I'm kind of new to my old tractor and started having an ignition problem today.
At problem start glow looked to be working but all that happened when attempt to start was a solenoid click. Assumed bad battery and jumped it with same result. Swapped out the battery with same result plus now started intermitently having no lights for glow or ignition on.
Now no indiction of juice with key on - no lights, horn, solenoid click.
Checked battery and its at 12.6 volts. Now it gets strange.
Pulled of wire from positive terminal on the solenoid and have 12.6 volts there, but when I put it the wire back on the solenoid says 0.1 volts. This may be a red herring with bad contact, but I have had it off and on several times with same result.
During one of my removals of large wires from solenoid, I hit something and the engine tried to turn over - but I can't recreate this. We had previously tried to jump accross solenoid with no luck.
Not sure why, but I have some suspicion its the ignition key or the wiring from the key to the solenoid/starter.
Anybody seen anything like this. Is there a way to bypass the ignition switch to test when I pull it out?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I'm kind of new to my old tractor and started having an ignition problem today.
At problem start glow looked to be working but all that happened when attempt to start was a solenoid click. Assumed bad battery and jumped it with same result. Swapped out the battery with same result plus now started intermitently having no lights for glow or ignition on.
Now no indiction of juice with key on - no lights, horn, solenoid click.
Checked battery and its at 12.6 volts. Now it gets strange.
Pulled of wire from positive terminal on the solenoid and have 12.6 volts there, but when I put it the wire back on the solenoid says 0.1 volts. This may be a red herring with bad contact, but I have had it off and on several times with same result.
During one of my removals of large wires from solenoid, I hit something and the engine tried to turn over - but I can't recreate this. We had previously tried to jump accross solenoid with no luck.
Not sure why, but I have some suspicion its the ignition key or the wiring from the key to the solenoid/starter.
Anybody seen anything like this. Is there a way to bypass the ignition switch to test when I pull it out?
Thanks in advance for any help.