Posted by johnald on September 15, 2014 at 08:19:35 from (74.240.136.116):
Here is the run down:
cub has been sitting for a year while I found time to work on it.
rebuilt motor, a little paint and finally got it back together. Wouldn't start when I first cranked it so I started checking the usual suspects. Whittled it down to not getting spark so I checked the coil, it seemed out of speck so I replaced it. When I did this I went from an old 12v coil to a new 6v coil with external resistor as that was all I could find at the time. Points looked good but I replaced them anyway to be sure. After replacing points, condenser and coil I pulled a plug to check for spark. As I cranked the engine I got one beautiful spark then nothing. I went to get a tool or something and accidentally left the key on. The resistor got pretty warm which did not seem right. Makes me think there is a short somewhere but I can't find one. Every connection and wire seems to get the proper voltage but I haven't been able to reproduce a spark. I'm pretty stumped on this one and I need to move on from this project and get this tractor running. Any help/advice is greatly appreciated.
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