Hello. I have a 1962 Ford 861 that was converted to 12v some years ago. Was hauling a log section when tractor just quit. No sputter just wound down suddenly which usually meant a wire came off someplace. After tracing wires and finding no problems checked distributor. Rotor ok. Pulled rotor to check points and noticed metal flecks on points plate. Pulled points and plate and found that one of the advance timing weights had broken off. Bought new distributor from YT. Installed and did static spark test w/#1 cylinder plug. Nothing. Checked coil by pulling neg. wire and center coil wire from distributor turned on ignition and grounded neg. wire while keeping tip of center coil wire just off of engine block. Had nice blue spark jump the clearance. Pulled distributor and set #1 cylinder to 24* of TDC by timing marks as given in shop manual. Installed distributor with rotor at #1 post and adjusted so points just start to separate. Put all together and checked for static spark on #1 plug by shifting distributor body back and forth but nothing. I don't seem to be getting any spark from distributor to any of the plugs. Checked all plug wires by using timing light to see if anything was coming through. I replaced coil just to make sure that wasn't somehow the problem. Still nothing.
I must be missing something or messing something up that I'm not getting a spark through the distributor. Anyone have an idea of where to go from here?
I must be missing something or messing something up that I'm not getting a spark through the distributor. Anyone have an idea of where to go from here?