Posted by Dan in North Houston on July 14, 2010 at 19:15:25 from (98.194.136.74):
Pull starter rope broke on the Craftsman string trimmer. Took it apart, turned out to be an easy fix to replace the rope. But, there is a rocker type kill switch on the housing, and when I pulled out the spade lugs on the contacts so I could remove the housing, one of the contacts on the switch came off. Well, of course nobody has one locally that I can find, and it is a special order from Sears and they don't have any in stock at the warehouse, so who knows how long it will take. So I removed the wires from the coil and the ground and installed some 18 gauge igition wire, about a foot long, so I could run it outside the housing and install a toggle switch to get me by for now. Pretty simple fix, except that now there is no spark at all. I have good continuity between the coil and the ground. And yes, I've tried it with the toggle switch in both positions. I can't believe that the spark plug just happened to fail at the same time. The gap between the coil and the flywheel appears to be fixed, so I don't believe that it changed when I removed the mounting screw to replace the ground wire - and I didn't touch the other mounting screw at all. What am I missing?
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