Duck Pond Redneckery
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An 8-32 screw, 3/8" to 1/2" long threaded part, with a 3/8" wide, 3/16" thick head, cut for a flat head driver, with a concave bowl shape on top, and a tiny hole about 1/32" by 1/8" deep drilled into the center.
Made of high density brass.
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Duck
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The tractor forum guys say it has to be brass but didn't say why. I'm guessing it has to do with dissimilar metals. Galvanic corrosion.
Duck
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It's required even if I get the $110 electronic ignition kit that replaces the points, because it still uses the ignition coil that mounts on top and conducts via that spring.
There's a $190 EI kit that uses a "hot shot" coil (that accomplishes nothing performance-wise) that uses a different coil and doesn't have the spring electrode. But that's like spending $70 to negate the need for the brass screw.
Having a hot ignition coil accomplishes nothing in an engine that only has a 6:1 compression ratio.
There's a $190 EI kit that uses a "hot shot" coil (that accomplishes nothing performance-wise) that uses a different coil and doesn't have the spring electrode. But that's like spending $70 to negate the need for the brass screw.
Having a hot ignition coil accomplishes nothing in an engine that only has a 6:1 compression ratio.
on the screw, i think you can use a dab of anti-seize on the threads. you "may" get lucky at a junkyard and get an old points distributor and get the screws from that.
mndriver
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Take it you've never played with fire colors.
Basically they are nothing but shortly strips of electrical wiring that's been packaged inside cardboard tubing.
Duck
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Mine sounds like a Toyota forklift. It's a 4 cylinder, designed to run at 1500 RPM.
The ones that sound like they're about to stall out are 1 or 2 cylinders.
The illegal mexicans who live in the pole barn next door have one like that. They till up about a 5 acre plot and grow sweet corn with it.
It's loud as hell. Probably runs full throttle at like 400 RPM. It literally sounds like they're shooting a semi-automatic rifle and pulling the trigger really fast.
some peroxide on either a Q-tip or small paint brush, will clean up that gunk on that spring.
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That's the old 6 volt coil. The 12 volt kit came with a new coil. But it's still in the box and the old one was right there so I took a picture of it. It's the same spring though.
oh..ok...you can still give it a light coating of dielectric grease, just to keep it clean...if ya wanted to.
Duck
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Yeah.
It might be fun to play with, using a 6 volt lantern battery. Make a stun gun out of it and run through a crowd of protesters.
actually, i meant to say put some dielectric grease on the new coil.....Yeah.
It might be fun to play with, using a 6 volt lantern battery. Make a stun gun out of it and run through a crowd of protesters.
given the location to the weather, and future servicing.
and yes, a stun gun would be nice, on cow-tipping weekends....
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