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My dad has an old B&S horizontal shaft on a tiller.
No spark - replaced the coil. The kill terminal is completely disconnected. Gapped it with a business card - no idea how thick the business card was. Still no spark. I don't know the coil brand. It was sourced from "the internet". (My dad is 85, and yes he still tills his own garden)
I told him to double check under the bolts of the coil, etc. I assume it grounds there?
So do the magneto coils on these things fail eventually - or try to source a better coil, or?
No spark - replaced the coil. The kill terminal is completely disconnected. Gapped it with a business card - no idea how thick the business card was. Still no spark. I don't know the coil brand. It was sourced from "the internet". (My dad is 85, and yes he still tills his own garden)
I told him to double check under the bolts of the coil, etc. I assume it grounds there?
So do the magneto coils on these things fail eventually - or try to source a better coil, or?