77shovelhead
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I am trying to get an old john deere walk behind running. It is not getting fire to the plug. This rig belongs to a friend of mine and he ran it last year and parked it in the shed. This year it will not start. I have done some searching on the net and it seems that the igniter is the most common cause of no spark.
I pulled the plug wire from the spark plug and with a screwdriver in the wire, held it to ground and no spark.
I have removed the engine shroud checking for mouse nest, chewed or bare wires, checked the coil gap (.012), removed the rust off of the flywheel and bypassed all the safety switches by disconnecting the white wire from the coil.
To replace the igniter, I need a model number. There is a number plate on the frame (SERIAL# *MO17PDX116040* with 17HP below), deck (SERIAL# *MO48CMX116841* with 48 COM MOW below) and engine cover (CODE # FC540V-BS01) but the SERIAL # is rubbed off. The john deere dealer says that none of them are good enough to identify the mower.
I did find specs for ohm checking the coil and igniter, but I don't know if it is for this mower, and my multimeter doesn't have rx10 setting.
Does anyone have knowledge of this mower? I need to test the igniter and the coil but I can't find enought info on this thing.
CC
I pulled the plug wire from the spark plug and with a screwdriver in the wire, held it to ground and no spark.
I have removed the engine shroud checking for mouse nest, chewed or bare wires, checked the coil gap (.012), removed the rust off of the flywheel and bypassed all the safety switches by disconnecting the white wire from the coil.
To replace the igniter, I need a model number. There is a number plate on the frame (SERIAL# *MO17PDX116040* with 17HP below), deck (SERIAL# *MO48CMX116841* with 48 COM MOW below) and engine cover (CODE # FC540V-BS01) but the SERIAL # is rubbed off. The john deere dealer says that none of them are good enough to identify the mower.
I did find specs for ohm checking the coil and igniter, but I don't know if it is for this mower, and my multimeter doesn't have rx10 setting.
Does anyone have knowledge of this mower? I need to test the igniter and the coil but I can't find enought info on this thing.
CC
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