Yep, sometimes it is simple. Had a similar problem: good battery, but no fire to the starter. Finally, using a cheapo lighted probe tester, I found that I had juice to the cable clamp, but not at the backside where the cable comes into the clamp. No obvious corrosion, but I took the clamp apart and brushed the cable end. Bingo!
Also, lately I've been having the same problem with the 8N--no fire to the starter. My sis-in-law asked if she could try--the tractor likes her, she said. Sure enough, it started. Later I tried, several times, nothing. She came up and again, it cranked right up. I asked myself "What is different?" I climbed in the seat, turned the key, pushed the starter, and it cranked. I figured out that the key switch is bad--jiggle it and the tractor will crank. I had been trying to crank it standing beside it. Sitting in the seat changes the hand angle on the key. Yeah, simple things.
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Today's Featured Article - The 8N and the Fox - by Zane Sherman. Dec. 13 1998, Renfroe, Alabama. Last niht I dreamed about the day that I plowed the field of about 10 acres over on what Jimmy and Dandy called the Ledbetter field. I was driving the 1948 8N Ford tractor that Jimmy bought in 48 new This was prebably in about 1951 and maybe even befor the house was built. This would have made me to be about16 years old and I drove the tractor for nothing and would have paid to drive it if I had had any money which I didn't, but neit
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