Gatorbait7802
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I have a Dixon with a Kohler Courage Pro 27.
I have only had it for about 6 months, but it is about 10 years old. It has about 250 hours. It started losing power intermittently, then it would come back. I mowed with it doing this for a while. It would drop power for 2 minutes then run fine for 20 etc.
After a little trouble shooting I figured out that the spark advance modules was going bad intermittently on the cylinder that was dropping. I bought the replacement normal coils and installed them. Walla it runs great now....except I noticed after mowing after dark that mu muffler was glowing orange. The power seems fine.
I was able to see that the fire was only coming out of one of the exhaust pipes. I took the muffler off and flames are spitting out of the exhaust on the same side that the coil was bad on. There is only one carbonator so it would seem that it isn't the carborator being rich.
I adjusted the valves, and it didn't change anything. Re-gapped the spark plugs - nothing. swapped the coils, nothing.
Any ideas what to do next or what it may be. Did I damage the cylinder by running it while it was intermittently cutting out. Flame has only come out of one exhaust never the other.
Thanks. This is my first post btw.
I have only had it for about 6 months, but it is about 10 years old. It has about 250 hours. It started losing power intermittently, then it would come back. I mowed with it doing this for a while. It would drop power for 2 minutes then run fine for 20 etc.
After a little trouble shooting I figured out that the spark advance modules was going bad intermittently on the cylinder that was dropping. I bought the replacement normal coils and installed them. Walla it runs great now....except I noticed after mowing after dark that mu muffler was glowing orange. The power seems fine.
I was able to see that the fire was only coming out of one of the exhaust pipes. I took the muffler off and flames are spitting out of the exhaust on the same side that the coil was bad on. There is only one carbonator so it would seem that it isn't the carborator being rich.
I adjusted the valves, and it didn't change anything. Re-gapped the spark plugs - nothing. swapped the coils, nothing.
Any ideas what to do next or what it may be. Did I damage the cylinder by running it while it was intermittently cutting out. Flame has only come out of one exhaust never the other.
Thanks. This is my first post btw.