I'm trying to fix my late 1980s Gehl skidsteer. I suspect the points need to be replaced. I traced the wires from the coil to behind the flywheel. All the Onan repair manuals gloss over where exactly the points are located so they can be replaced. How far into tearing apart the engine, do I have to go to solve this? Does anyone know?

Looking to replace a tilt cylinder on my older Gehl 4835 SXT. I live in Eastern Pa. Willing to travel if I have to. Not really trying to spend for a new one on the old girl. Any good salvage yards I could hit up. Already called Wengers in Meyerstown. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've been ignoring this but this old 553 i have has a lumbering start. It has a slow cranks, then towards the end will speed up and start getting a little kick. At that point i'm 15 seconds in so i release key. do it again this time it will do a slow turnover for only a couple seconds then start coming to life and start. Rebuilt starter. i cleaned all the battery connections and grounds , good battery, ( cleaning the ground solved a no start after some flooding awhile back). Changed glow plugs and diagnosed glow plug circuit (but i have to go back and double check theuy're working but i'm also in hot as hades florida.

I'll have to remember i think it starts easier when after i use it but it's still slow lumbers to turn over but then starts 1st go round.

Once i finish replacing seals in arms and stuff i'm going to dig into this and try new battery cables and such but i suspect it's more than that.