Our Nuffield 4/60, as readers will know, is our yard tractor that will not win any beauty contest but usually gets the job done.
The starter has been a bit ‘hit-and-miss’ of late, sometimes cranking the engine over, and then another time the earth lead needs jiggling to get the thing to turn over. Of late, it’s been started by shorting out the solenoid with a screwdriver whilst wriggling the earth wire!
Yes, I know it is dangerous, but I always check the tractor is in neutral before trying the manoeuvre, a more modern tractor would have interlocks on the gearbox or the clutch pedal for safety and would probably mean that the starter issue would be sorted sooner than later. As it is, the tractor only gets
