The Haunted 129 -_-

[adamo]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

Post a pic of you battery.

Pic of battery and I believe someone else asked for all the connections so I took a pic of the distributor.

[J-Mech]

Do you have a headlamp for a car around? The old glass (like a incandescent) style?

Or perhaps does this 129 have a working headlight?

[adamo]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

Do you have a headlamp for a car around? The old glass (like a incandescent) style?

Or perhaps does this 129 have a working headlight?

Yes I have headlights on the 129. They work!

[J-Mech]

Originally Posted by adamo

Yes I have headlights on the 129. They work!

Ok
Do this:
Remove one of the headlamps (Ok, so you don't have to remove it, but disconnect it.) Make two wires for it. Run one wire to a good ground, or the battery neg. (Or just leave the negative wire attached to the light.) Run the other to the "A" post on the S/G. (Make this wire long enough to reach the battery. We may need to test other stuff here later.) Don't attach it permanently. Hit the key to start it. Does the light light up? If yes, how bright?

[budscub]

Hey J-mech, correct me if I am wrong, but if he jumps the two large terminals with a screw driver, does that not leave only the battery cables,, battery itself, or the starter generator to ground to be at fault? If the starter generator is good.
I was looking back at the photos, in the one photo the terminal on the Positive battery post doesn't look like a good crimp. Of course it is difficult to tell in the photo, but the cable looks swollen just as it makes the turn coming from the battery, looks like it maybe full of corrosion.

[J-Mech]

Originally Posted by budscub

Hey J-mech, correct me if I am wrong, but if he jumps the two large terminals with a screw driver, does that not leave only the battery cables,, battery itself, or the starter generator to ground to be at fault? If the starter generator is good.
I was looking back at the photos, in the one photo the terminal on the Positive battery post doesn't look like a good crimp. Of course it is difficult to tell in the photo, but the cable looks swollen just as it makes the turn coming from the battery, looks like it maybe full of corrosion.

Yes, you are correct..... BUT:
This is a teaching moment. Instead of using a tool and try to burn something up, I am going to teach everyone how to test a circuit using wire and a headlamp. Use the headlamp because it has a somewhat large load. Much larger load than a test light. This way, if the light is dim, we will know if the voltage is low. Sure, we could use a meter, but sometimes a meter will lie. One good strand in a wire will carry 12V, but it will not light up that headlamp. In 2 or 3 short tests, we will know exactly where the issue is. No guessing.


It will be fun.

[budscub]

Thank you sir, Nothing like teaching them to fish. Good Idea using the head light.

[adamo]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

Ok
Do this:
Remove one of the headlamps (Ok, so you don't have to remove it, but disconnect it.) Make two wires for it. Run one wire to a good ground, or the battery neg. (Or just leave the negative wire attached to the light.) Run the other to the "A" post on the S/G. (Make this wire long enough to reach the battery. We may need to test other stuff here later.) Don't attach it permanently. Hit the key to start it. Does the light light up? If yes, how bright?

Ok! Nice and bright when I turn the key. Also know that I attached the negative to the ground post to the frame from the SG.

[J-Mech]

So, with the light hooked up to the "A" post of the starter, you hit the key and it lights up. If that is correct, your starter is bad/broken.

Just a quick test, disconnect the "test light", hold the key in the start position, take a hammer and give the S/G some "love taps" on the side. Does it try to turn/ start?

[adamo]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

So, with the light hooked up to the "A" post of the starter, you hit the key and it lights up. If that is correct, your starter is bad/broken.

Just a quick test, disconnect the "test light", hold the key in the start position, take a hammer and give the S/G some "love taps" on the side. Does it try to turn/ start?

Except when I run jumper cables from a battery to the s/g it turns over. It is with the A terminal lead disconnected from tractor.