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Allis chalmers big10 no fire

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Topic: Allis chalmers big10 no fire

Posted By: Ticard76
Subject: Allis chalmers big10 no fire
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2017 at 2:37pm

Im getting very little fire thru the plug wire its a dull yellow spark and doesnt give any jolt maybe once out of 100 tries to start. It seema to me that I'd have to take the engine out to get to the points or whatever. Ive heard of a method of putting a battery type system on there to bypass the ild stuff. Has anyone ever done this? My little tractor runs great and i love it really would like some advice on this. Im not much of a mechanic thanks in advance

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Posted By: rustydollar
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2017 at 8:51am

Yellow spark usually indicates a bad condenser.

Posted By: Brad in WA
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2017 at 4:45am

No need to remove engine. Points are on left side of engine under a rectangular cover.

Posted By: Ticard76
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2017 at 5:39am

If i follow the plug wire it leads to inside tje engine.

Posted By: Brad in WA
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2017 at 8:17am

The coil is mounted above the flywheel but the points are external. Check those first, probably just need to be cleaned.