So now what? Ford 600

[zenamcfadden]

Randy says thank you to all who took time out of their busy lives to share knowledge.

So he and his friend Meryl, a carburetor specialist, found two things that could have caused the problem.
First, they found that a little screw in the bottom of the bowl was too long and may have been restricting fuel in main jet. (They cut off the screw)

Second thing was that we might have put on the wrong seal on the main jet. It was too big. This may have caused it to draw air instead of gas. So we replaced the wrong seal with the right seal.

We learned much for everyones contributions. Tractor runs pretty good now, but the motor is low on compression. This is why it doesn't run really well still.
Happy that it runs, there was a time we couldn't get it started.

Zena and Randy.

 

[zenamcfadden]

**** thing wouldn't start this morning. Back to the drawing board.

 

[zenamcfadden]

Okay, so Randy put in a different condensor and it is starting without needing the choke. Keeping our fingers crossed here.

 

[Soundguy]

Watch out.. it may not be that the condensor was actually bad. remember.. to change out the condensor, you are redoing lots of electrical and mechanical connections. It's a common mistake to attribute a part being hte problem, when it was instead a connection disturbed, getting to that part.

Not saying you DID NOT have a bad condensor.. I just wouldn't bet large sums of money on it. I have a fleet of antique tractors. i can count on 1 hand how many truly bad condensors I have actually found that gave run time issues.