Hello everyone!
I am new to the form, so hello and hope you can give me some advice.
First off, I am not a car nor am I a small engine guy, never fixed much other than putting in new batteries, lights, spark plugs, etc, but either way I have a problem with my mower.
It's a rather old Murray, with a brigss engine, given to me by my father in law. It worked fine the other day. I cranked it up, cut the grass, put in some new gas, and then when I went to put it in our little shed it would not start. It wouldn't even click. The flywheel would spin maybe a few turns, slowly, then die out. I got a new battery, it's fine, I checked it with my multi-meter, it's pushing out 12.93 volts. I also got a new fuse, changed the oil, and a new spark plug, changed the air filter and bought a new solenoid. It still doesn't start. I checked the cable from the battery to the first mount on the solenoid, it gets about 12.9 volts (that's on the battery side). I even put a wrench in the middle of the solenoid and it will spark, but doesn't crank, and what is weird is that it will not CLICK unless I have that wrench in the middle of the two sol. posts, if I take it away, it won't make that click/clunk noise. The only way we got it to start was hooking a jumper from the battery + terminal and then hooking the other end directly onto the positive cable running to the starter motor, and then it will turn over, I turn the key and it cranks.
I am at a loss, I am not sure how to go about testing wires/grounds, and if it's the ignition switch, but normally if it was the ignition switch would it have cranked when I turned the key from on to start when I jumped the starter motor?
Any help would be appreciated. I don't have a huge yard, but down in SC during the summer it is hot as heck, and using my push mower isn't too fun.
I am new to the form, so hello and hope you can give me some advice.
First off, I am not a car nor am I a small engine guy, never fixed much other than putting in new batteries, lights, spark plugs, etc, but either way I have a problem with my mower.
It's a rather old Murray, with a brigss engine, given to me by my father in law. It worked fine the other day. I cranked it up, cut the grass, put in some new gas, and then when I went to put it in our little shed it would not start. It wouldn't even click. The flywheel would spin maybe a few turns, slowly, then die out. I got a new battery, it's fine, I checked it with my multi-meter, it's pushing out 12.93 volts. I also got a new fuse, changed the oil, and a new spark plug, changed the air filter and bought a new solenoid. It still doesn't start. I checked the cable from the battery to the first mount on the solenoid, it gets about 12.9 volts (that's on the battery side). I even put a wrench in the middle of the solenoid and it will spark, but doesn't crank, and what is weird is that it will not CLICK unless I have that wrench in the middle of the two sol. posts, if I take it away, it won't make that click/clunk noise. The only way we got it to start was hooking a jumper from the battery + terminal and then hooking the other end directly onto the positive cable running to the starter motor, and then it will turn over, I turn the key and it cranks.
I am at a loss, I am not sure how to go about testing wires/grounds, and if it's the ignition switch, but normally if it was the ignition switch would it have cranked when I turned the key from on to start when I jumped the starter motor?
Any help would be appreciated. I don't have a huge yard, but down in SC during the summer it is hot as heck, and using my push mower isn't too fun.