merlion497
Cadet
- Joined
- Jun 2, 2009
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Hey i have a 6 hp something that I picked up in the junkyard last week. I messed around with it and got it running but it is sparking badly and therefore running very poorly. I took off the fly wheel and was not surprised to see that the spark plug wires running from the magneto to the sparkplugs were just in the worst condition ever. It has 2 magnetos, both have multiple splices, with ducktape wrapped all over the place. Obviously this needs some work. I live in mexico however so buying new coils is not an option, especially since I dont even know the make or model or even that it is 6hp, thats just what the guy at the yard told me.
Now through junk yard scrapping i have some extra magnetos laying around. Now i am a lay person so i will try to explain the dillema the best I can. The extra magnetos have good wires and boots, but the hole in the center (which gets filled with the center prong of the 3 prongs of thin layers of metal that is located under the fly wheel) is not big enough.
Can i snap off a few of the layers of metal to make these new magnetos fit? If not, and i am able to find random magnetos that do fit, can you just interchange them or are they model specific?
And last option for repair that i can thing of is just redoing the splices in the current magnetos. whats the best way of splicing these wires? I was thinking about just making sure the contact is good where the slices are made, and just melting silicon all over. Will that prevent it from arcing? Or do i have other options?
Now through junk yard scrapping i have some extra magnetos laying around. Now i am a lay person so i will try to explain the dillema the best I can. The extra magnetos have good wires and boots, but the hole in the center (which gets filled with the center prong of the 3 prongs of thin layers of metal that is located under the fly wheel) is not big enough.
Can i snap off a few of the layers of metal to make these new magnetos fit? If not, and i am able to find random magnetos that do fit, can you just interchange them or are they model specific?
And last option for repair that i can thing of is just redoing the splices in the current magnetos. whats the best way of splicing these wires? I was thinking about just making sure the contact is good where the slices are made, and just melting silicon all over. Will that prevent it from arcing? Or do i have other options?