It's not firing. It ran fine two weeks ago. I ckecked( with a meter) to see if it is getting pwer to the coil. It's not.It has a B&S engine, don't recall HP. It's about 5/6 years old. It's a 42" cut. It is across town and I don't have immediate access to it for more info.
If the motor rolls over but will not start, check the oil. If that's full, then there's one of two problems. Either the coil pickup is bad or the electrical piece under the flywheel is bad. This looks like a long curved plastic thing with copper wire around it. If its the older style with points, clean them with an emery board or replace them. If you need to do this, they need to be reset. place a matchbook between them in the closed position and tighten the bolt.
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No engine numbers to work with so here something to check. Briggs V-twins has set blocking diodes in the kill wire set. If one is shorted or leaky it will cause one coil to be dead if not both. I just went this very same thing here a few weeks ago. In my case I started out one dead coil for sure installed new coil and still had no fire. Remove the kill wire as I normally do during testing in case a short and the new coil fired fine. Easier to just replace the wire harness then repair it. Out of curiosity I checked out the wiring harness and found one diode shorted and other one leaky.
They aren't cheap that's for sure. Have you tried taking the part number and doing a google search? You may be amazed at some aftermarket prices. Do you have part number, I can check too.
Hi, check your oil level incase it has the guardian system on it. If that is ok it may be the coil as kohlers have a habit of them failing, regards Phil.
take the spark plug out and see if the engine will turn over then, gas will probably come out of the cylinder cause you flooded it when you turned it over after you get the gas out of the cylinder, put the cleaned spark plug back in and it should start
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