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Change To 12-Volts Keeps Old Tractor Running
Neil Ohler's Ford Jubilee (9 NNA) tractor is 50 years old this year and still going strong. But Ohler nearly had to retire it for lack of a regulator.
  "The regulator on the original 6-volt generator went bad and I couldn't find a new one," he says.
  Then it came to him that he could convert the tractor to a 12-volt electrical system. "I simply removed the tractor's generator and replaced it with an old Delco 12-volt auto generator from a salvage yard," he says.
  The 12-volt generator was no problem to mount on the tractor. He replaced the 6-volt battery with a new 12-volt one the same size and put on a new 12-volt regulator. Once he had the generator and battery in place, all he had to do was install a 12-volt condenser in the distributor. "Since 6-volt wiring is heavier than 12-volt, I didn't need to make any changes to the wiring or the starter," he says.
  "I would have had to replace the light bulbs, except the lights on it quit working a long time ago," he notes.
  "Alternators are easier to find these days than generators so that would probably be a better way to go," he notes. "And while replacing the generator was fairly simple, hooking in a single-wire alternator with a built-in regulator would have been even easier. The problem I had was the alternators I found didn't fit the mountings on the tractor. I was able to find a generator that did, so it saved me from having to make a new mounting bracket."
  Before he switched over to 12 volts, the tractor's old starter was a little slow, especially on cold days. "It starts better with 12-volts," he says. "Now, you just hit the switch and it's going."
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Neil Ohler, Box 127, Stavely, Alberta, Canada T0L 1Z0 (ph 403 549-2480; E-mail: nohler@ telus.net).


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2003 - Volume #27, Issue #2