I bought this engine about a month ago second hand and it would run great,warm up until i put load on it, then it would eventually stall out and not start again until waiting a while. Its a manual pull and has no battery. The impeller seemed to be working fine for cooling and the engine never felt hot when i took off the cover, so i dont THINK it was overheating.
After waiting a while it would turn over again.
After the last time I killed it I couldn't start it again at all.
Cleaned the spark plugs, span the flywheel by hand (is that enough or should i be pulling the starting cord and having a second person hold the spark plug?) while putting the spark plug very close to the ground and no spark.
I took off the flywheel and cleaned the rust off the flywheel where the magneto contacts it. Didn't seem too bad. Is there a way of testing these? I didn't see any cracks or significant signs of wear (all magnets still painted perfectly green.)
I tested the coils and both of them are showing the same resistance on the secondary terminal to ground.
I took off the rectifier and tested red and 3 yellow / stripe leads. All showed resistance one way, and not at all when i switched the leads.
Ive got the power pack dissembled now CD2 583169 19 E M-OA and have 131 and 133 k ohm resistance from coil inputs to ground wire. Is there any test for the power pack?
I tried to go to the library but they didn't seem to have too many books on smaller Johnston kicker engines that were in the 88 range.
Also it usually makes a flywheel turning noise and a clucking noise trying to turn over, its just the flywheel noise now...
Could I hook up a multimeter to the input of the coil or would the V still be too much even before the coil and kill the meter?
I don't want to just start replacing random parts without ruling things out a bit more. Any help in the right directing would be really appreciated!
After waiting a while it would turn over again.
After the last time I killed it I couldn't start it again at all.
Cleaned the spark plugs, span the flywheel by hand (is that enough or should i be pulling the starting cord and having a second person hold the spark plug?) while putting the spark plug very close to the ground and no spark.
I took off the flywheel and cleaned the rust off the flywheel where the magneto contacts it. Didn't seem too bad. Is there a way of testing these? I didn't see any cracks or significant signs of wear (all magnets still painted perfectly green.)
I tested the coils and both of them are showing the same resistance on the secondary terminal to ground.
I took off the rectifier and tested red and 3 yellow / stripe leads. All showed resistance one way, and not at all when i switched the leads.
Ive got the power pack dissembled now CD2 583169 19 E M-OA and have 131 and 133 k ohm resistance from coil inputs to ground wire. Is there any test for the power pack?
I tried to go to the library but they didn't seem to have too many books on smaller Johnston kicker engines that were in the 88 range.
Also it usually makes a flywheel turning noise and a clucking noise trying to turn over, its just the flywheel noise now...
Could I hook up a multimeter to the input of the coil or would the V still be too much even before the coil and kill the meter?
I don't want to just start replacing random parts without ruling things out a bit more. Any help in the right directing would be really appreciated!