What is the Firing order of a TE20 Ferguson tractor?
The answer is confusing...
The official Ferguson Service Manual does not state a firing
order for the 6 volt version of the TE-A20 (Standard Motor Co.
Petrol Motor). For the 12 volt version of the TE-A20, the diesel
(TE-F20), the vaporising oil models (TE-D20 & TE-E20), and the
lamp oil model (TE-H20), the official Service Manual states that
the firing order is 1-4-3-2.
However, from observation of the distributor, on both my own
TE-A20 and my father-in-law's one, which both function correctly,
the firing order appears to be 1-2-4-3, as this is the order that
the spark-plug leads are connected to the distributor (in a
clockwise direction, viewing the distributor from above, which is
the direction in which the rotor turns).
My observations are confirmed by a post by Graham Boulter at
Yesterday's Tractor Co.'s discussion board:
http://www.ytmag.com/mf/messages/12855.html
The I+T Ferguson Shop Manual has the firing order as 1342 ,
check rotation direction.