... I have an old 8N. I haven't cranked it in several years. I expect it needs a battery and a trip through the fuel system.
Dave -- with the various 8Ns, a 9N, and a 2N, I've owned, I found that letting any one of them, non-running, for more than about 15 minutes, required adjusting the points and adjusting the carburetor before I could get it re-started.
My 76 year old brother has a crooked arm because of a 8N. In the early 1950s, about an acre corner of our farm was sold to a Ford/Ferguson dealer. My brother hung out there regularly. Back in the early '50s, those tractors were delivered without a battery. Once they arrived, a battery would be installed, and the battery would get charged by starting the engine, using a hand crank inserted in the front of the engine. My brother was inexperienced and young enough (7th or 8th grade, I believe) to not know that you shouldn't wrap your thumb around the crank. It backfired. He was in a cast for several weeks.
