Gearheadmike
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So i was working on a lawn mower it has the Kohler courage 20hp the original coil was chewed up and had some burnt spots from a damn mouse nest. Anyway i bought a new coil installed and gapped.
Cranked engine and no fire so i pulled the ground/kill wire from the coil and it fired right up but as soon as kill wire is attached it dies. Yes key is on and i traced the kill wire for shorts nothing found. I hooked up the original and everything works.
The ground/kill tab on the original coil (not running) is reading as a closed circuit as it should but new one is reading open.
Is this pretty common for these style coils to do that? The Ebay seller is telling me it's a fault on my machine but i believe he sold me a faulty coil.
Cranked engine and no fire so i pulled the ground/kill wire from the coil and it fired right up but as soon as kill wire is attached it dies. Yes key is on and i traced the kill wire for shorts nothing found. I hooked up the original and everything works.
The ground/kill tab on the original coil (not running) is reading as a closed circuit as it should but new one is reading open.
Is this pretty common for these style coils to do that? The Ebay seller is telling me it's a fault on my machine but i believe he sold me a faulty coil.