Posted by JRSutton on July 28, 2012 at 13:10:47 from (75.130.109.233):
ok - so it's not IH - it's the magneto on the wisconsin egnine on a new holland baler - but the brand shouldn't matter, just more of a general magneto question.
I'm trying to get the engine started - it sat for 15 years.
2 cylinder engine. I HAD spark on both plugs this morning before I started going over the engine...
Stuck valves - crusty carburetor - old oil - etc etc. At some point I opened the mag to clean the points (foolishly I guess - should have left well enough alone).
In no longer have spark.
Nothing - neither plug - totally dead.
Now - I also, rather foolishly, turned the engine over for a while using the electric starter - with the plug wires disconnected by mistake.
Not a mag expert here - I've heard running a mag ungrounded like that can be a real bad thing - but I'm not sure HOW it's a bad thing - what goes wrong if you do that?
I'm thinking I either messed up the points in cleaning them - or I burned something out in the mag by running it with no plugs...
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