Ok I finally had the chance to try your last advice on disconnecting that wire. Didn’t get a spark. Before I tried it I looked and the mower was definitely not engaged. But in case the pto thought it was I also tried unplugging it. Didn’t help either. Any other suggestions? Another man said...
The other thing I changed on this mower is a new ignition switch. I have to use a extra toggle switch with my ignition switch to connect two of the poles together so that it will crank. I have been using it this way for ten years or so. Just makes me wonder if that caused something else to go...
I put a wire to jump around the plastic thing and that did not help. Here is a kind of curious thing. I can pull up on the pto button and still get the mower to crank. I don’t remember being able to do this before. I thought that having the pto engaged acted like a kill switch in the past. I...
Well I got the new ignition igniter installed and I still don’t have spark.tried it with the new coil and even with the old one. Checked wiring over that it attaches to and do not see any breaks. There is this little plastic cylinder on the wire and I can’t tell why it is there or what is...
Very interesting post. I was able to locate the little silver box and JD gave me the part Number to order a new one. Only $10.00. It would be fantastic if this finally solved my problem. You are very knowledgeable and I sure appreciate your insightful help.
I looked that service manual over and I’m pretty sure that is not my engine. I only have one coil and that one has two coils. This is a John Deere F510 with a Kawasaki PA 420A engine.