Recent content by boatmoter

not sure what Im missing here, I rebuilt starters and Alternators on cars,trucks,tractors & heavy equipment and nothing but Electrical work for 13 yrs of my Auto tech work force, I remember the stator putting out same voltage depending upon the RPM in AC voltage and the regulator, so they call...

magneto ignition??? ever heard of a ignition system that's is fired by the ignition control module? power to the coil from ignition and the ignition control module grounds the coil to fire at the proper time

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yep I skipped that step,the previous owner told me he did a head job on it, I looked at all the copper spray on it and thought. ok. but he lied to me,he said he had the head resurfaced,machine shop I deal with said it never been planed before. warped aluminum head is reason for head gasket...

sounds like you have a really lean condition, you need more fuel to go inside the engine,carb has to be able to be adjusted for that, if there is no mixture screw,you may have a defective carb

you may have bent the spindle shaft. remove mower belts and turn by hand to see if spindle shaft is bent

go to Ebay and put your make - model -hp of generator in comma carb. you can probably get a new carb cheaper then you can get a kit,put a new one on my brothers Generator last year carb off Ebay was $19 with free ship. Amazon has them too

the one on my John deere 18hp I got from Amazon, it was not the cheapest but not the rolls royce either,been on there for 5 yrs now and going strong. make sure you get a pump for a carbureted engine. heres one I bought...

my John deere won't start when the engine is cold not even in the summer unless the choke on the carb is fully closed

hook a volt meter or test light to the + & - of the coil not firing, run engine or just crank over,does it have a reading? if not,turn key on & check the + terminal on the coil to see if it has voltage

when you do locate the regulator, I would unplug it and hook you meter leads to the 2 wire going to the stator and put meter on AC volts, hold engine to about half throttle,it should read voltage,tell us how much voltage and we can go from there

I would check for 12 volts at the coil with ignition on, if you have it,then test for ground on the other terminal of the coil when cranking engine over then we can go from there

are you adding any type of additive to the E10 fuel your running to curb the Ethanol?

a old school trick, you gotta love that. the ol 0.25 business card,done that many times

if it were mine I would put like a grade #5 bolt in it,hardened