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When not getting spark from a distributor, connect a spark plug wire directly to the coil and run the engine. If you have spark now, your problem lies between the coil -> cap -> rotor -> cap -> plug wire -> spark plug.

So cool you got that to start up and run. I always bring along a cordless leaf blower when I'm playing with old stuff to clean off the engine compartment and surroundings. Makes it easier to see, as well as lessen the fire hazard.

Nice to see getting old machines up and running again. Watching you from the UK

That is a nice running V 4 engine. And the chain digger drives as well. Great restauration project.

Great story I find it extremely rewarding to keep/get old equipment running. I have a 1966 Davis task force 500 trencher with backhoe that I took out the two cylinder engine that had a spun rod bearing and grafted in a Wisconsin V4 that came out of a late 50s cement mixer. Really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing.

Great video. Would love to see more content on y'all fixing up this machine! Thanks y'all!

V4 air cooled Wisconsin was one of the most reliable motors from small farm machinery to industrial off road equipment with gross weight pushing 3 tons empty to fully loaded near 6 tons 6x6 and a small drilling rig and 60" paddle tires mostly swampy areas looking for oil reserves .

Your camera action is outstanding. Far too many move the camera far too frequently and not as it should be to keep the viewer focused on what is most important. Thanks, very professional. Worthy of future viewing.

Nice little machine. Yeah, I reckon getting it digging trenches again would be cool for the channel and a nice little rental opportunity too. 👍🏻

Your old ladies nail file are amazing for cleaning the points 👍😁

Must have been Grandad that used this equipment! Good to hear the witch run!

Good job repairing your Ditch Witch. I worked for ditch witch about 20 years

I'm halfway through this video when I thought of this; those are old fuel lines. This means that they probably need chabging. The other thought I had is that the accelerator pump's diagram is additionally in need of changing. It's possibly torn.

That’s so cool to get old equipment going …Playing with toys is fun!! You could make money using this!!

These machines work quickly is a great friend of man

Little tip I learned is instead of sucking on the fuel line, blow in the fuel tank cap, and pressurize it, the same results without the same great taste.

Small world! I have a cabin in Gladwin, I love the area. Great video guys!

That's fantastic. Great video 👍

Cool I have a 1981 R49 4X4 with a chain trencher with a back hoe and 6 way blade. ROPS and run by Air cooled Deutz.

Keep up the good work guys 🎉

Молодцы! Красавчики! 👍🔥💪Привет из России! 🤝

Sorry if I am bad . Great stuff. 2 ft. Snow here. Love this cause there 2 ft. Snow. Thanks.

Great job, guys

Wow I'm impressed👍

Just bought one two days ago and the guy said he could not get it to start. It sat 5+ years! After removing the intake, cleaned it out from debris because of the open muffler, gapped the points, cleaned out the carb, then took the chance. I mean $500 it was either going to be junk or a gem! It started surprisingly!!

Take us along when you bring this all the way to working conditions- interesting machine

That is cool and that you got it going again

I keep hoping that a spark in a distributer is only relative to the amount of spark produced when it should be. That is a proper gap set and a proper ground as you are actually very good with electricity on other stuff. A wrong gap can cause a late spark or early depending on how well set. Another thing commonly overlooked by many many people is the grounding of the points. If those points were not screwed down inside of the distributor, there would not be a spark at all. Many people will sand the points and expect a spark... they should if the points themselves are properly grounded to the distributor and that is possible to look like it should work correctly but corrosive stuff gets between the points and the distributor... one simple way to get this grounded is to just open the screw holding them down and then retighten.... do it a couple times just for a grin as its corroded and needs that abrasion to help complete the ground to this distributor making life a lot easier. Just loosening them a little can help but get serious and do it so you eliminate the chance of the points not being grounded. I can say from experience that getting a shock from a coil can hurt for a long time if it hits you very hard. I lost all feeling in my right arm till I had surgery to correct a joint in my shoulder for getting a serious shock. Now as a kid, I would find some appliance in say a grocery store, hang onto my girlfriend or buddy and then touch the item that gave off a static shock from being not grounded proper..... very common in say stuff before the early seventies and rules about stuff being grounded with a third plug on your electric cord. I never did it on purpose but shocked a older person who peed their pants and then sent me to jail for it. I'm serious as I lost my balance trying to not get shocked myself, it made me jump and grab someone for balance and they got hit double hard as it increases in intensity when that happens. Another trick of my twisted sense of humor was I had really dry and fine hair full of static when I would dry it with a towel. So just for grins used to shock all of my sisters or even my brothers who started out bigger than myself. Lost in conversations here.... make sure that if you can to just take them out, the points I am referring to. Clean this area with some alcohol or starting fluid as its not oily and will not interfere with the proper grounding. Motor manuals used to start their chapter in a wiring book for trouble shooting.... first three words of every manual was "Grounds Grounds Grounds"! The emphasized this was most important

I love it.I would love to have it thank for showing😊

Itd be cool to get it trenching again!

Great video guys! The biggest reason it started and runs with little effort is because it is OLD… had it been newer with electronics it would have cost big bucks to get it running!

we also start a daidz tractor which our Boss said is have 50 years inthe bushes we wash is engine fo 2 weeks & fold it anstating now is a ❤ of our Boss in warden freestate south africa

I wish I knew which engine your machine has as I bought a used, low hour VH4D a few years back and rebuilt engines were selling for $6 grand or more online. Bought mine for $850 with 600 hours on it. Runs great. If needed I have an original parts book for Wisconsin engines. It's huge! The largest engines were 65hp if memory serves me 👍.

simpson p260! my favorite vtvm I had in the navy!

good job on getting it running..

You got really lucky starting that machine.

My buddy and I converted the articulating walk behind Ditch Witch version trencher into a log splitter 15 years ago. Thing runs mint to this day. Raise and lower the splitting beam and the hydraulics to power the splitting ram are already there. Idk the "splitting TONS", it eats.

Good Lord! I thought i was the only tech still using analog test equipment. I have the same Simpson meter.

Dad's encouraging words, you will never get that thing running!!! Hahahahaha

Worked on many of them and the 30's.

Fala galera, muito bacana vocês com essas recomendações dessas máquinas antigas vocês guerreiros.

Really enjoyed your channel

wow the car works very well you two fix it, it must be very nice like the channel 👍👍

That was fun.

Another great video

If you are going to bypass everything that will stop the engine from starting or fly on fire you only have yourself to blame ,No different from making sure if all components are freely moving, It will save you time and unnecessary problems further down the line.

An r40 ditch witch with an air cooled Wisconsin engine will go forever. They hadn’t ruined them with electronics and safety equipment. I worked on dw for forty years and they were great machines

way to go guys😁😁😁

Muy bien, Buena aventura!

bravo ! et bonjour de la FRANCE !

Nice trencher

Thanks 🇹🇷

Wow amazing 🤔🇧🇷

That's cool

Some one else junk is a poor man's treasure fix it and sell it to a man who would need it you guy's are cool thanks for sharing i am new to this channel i watched you fix the dozer your dad dug a big ditch having fun.

Magnifique petit engin 👏😍

Super video 👍

After you clean the points , spray them a bit with cleaner. Wash off the dust.

It's funny, at the last Tyler is blushing on telling about ditching for the Amish. Funny enough. Yes get the big front loader running. Next time with a gas engine squirt some gas in the spark plug holes. It will run the engine long enough to get the fuel through the fuel pump guys.

Go green!!

Ive a Case_Davis 30+4 version of this... Mine's articulated and came with a backhoe.. otherwise the same machine. A few items I've garnered over the years: (mine's a 1972 or 4..) install a $14 electric fuel pump(2-4 #'s pressure). They love to eat hydraulic hoses (probably just because they're 50 yrs old now!! LOL) I adapted a VW 32PICT carb & fabricated a manifold out of exhaust tubing and assorted flanges.( Because of my carb orientation, the governor hookup is still in question... but the engine runs like a bear!!) Rims rot out and so I purchased some rim barrels and cut out my centers and welded them to the barrels ..Fixed!! Carlisle till sells thes3e tires. *I added a Chinese multi-function hydraulic spool and it's soo much easier to run. Buy a suspension seat at Tractor suppl.. and your into the 21st century and the equivalent of a $50k machine!!

Verygood 👍🏽

Haha... I knew it was going to run before you even cleaned off the first leaf! Nice job bud. I try to keep my Case Davis 40+4 in decent shape but she's getting a little old now. Loves her hoses lately. Quick question, do you have a decent supplier suggestion for the carbide picks on the chain? Seems like turned into gold lately..

Молодці. Техніка вогонь.

If only dozers, loaders were this easy to get running again 😊.

Good video

Good little tow motor if auger doesn’t work

I love the way you don't care about.. skeeters snakes spiders hornets and posin ivy. another great video. thanks

Como e que abadona maquina ainda funcional e muita extravagância.

Yes.👍

Молодцы!!

Wheres the key pad !😂Enjoyed this thanks.

video great. 💚

Great

can't believe people leave this expensive equipment to rot. Crazy

Gud works

yeah them old wisconsins if they turn they will run, in my area running and working right thats worth 3k all day

I spent so many hours on those machines.

This car has been left here for a long time

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I like your old Simpson volt meter

Should have used a garden blower to get the leaves off the engine

Привет. Крутая техника.

Zdravý zvuk motora

Quanto tempo esse trator estava parado?

part I have a question why there are so many abandoned construction and agricultural machines in the US?

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De que localidade vocês estão?

Are there pink slip with this kind of heavy equipment.

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nice work, leave the governor alone it operates centrifugally and is connect to the engine, you will damage it....

Dude buy one of those fuel bulbs from an old school boat tank, sucking fuel is no fun. Hope you make some money with that Ditch Witch. Cheers.

yes fix it up give secound life

Do you still have your ditch witch ? If so would you sell it. ? I really dont need it but ive always wanted one just to tinker with im sure you know what I mean. Jus wondering thanks in advance I also worked with my dad till he passed away 98 yrs old. I miss him every day

That thing is worth like 4k near me

Take the tail end and make it in too a farm tractor.

Carb has a prim lever on it carb bowl needs to be filled up

GOOD JOB .

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