Alright alright, you got it! Great video! I love watching the troubleshooting process, it teaches me a lot and helps me tremendously

I admire your patience.

Excellent video Having the same issue with my 170. You got me running again. Many thanx I was about to give up and part it out

very good video, thanks Lewis

I admire your tenacity in checking out all of these parts! My buddy had a John Deere 265 with a similar setup. We did pretty much the same tests only without the igniter. It would not start with a new ignition coil installed. Then I disconnected the wiring harness and tried starting it and varoom! It started right up! Only thing is the blades would not turn for some reason.... Whenever I put the connector back together, it would not start again. I ended up cutting the plugs off the ends of the wires and using wire nuts to connect the wires. It still would not start. I found out if you leave the two white wires disconnected it would start up, but once connected, it would not start. The white wire connects directly to the igniter!

Good finding this guy knows his stuff!!! Awesome guy!!!

Great video and guidance for fixing my lx176

Thank u soo much !!!! I changed the coil did all the same things you did. I was stumped !!!

Top man - you hit the spot and saved me loads of wasted time and money, thank you.

You’re remarkably patient. I would’ve fixed that thing with a stick of dynamite 🧨😊

Thanks brother

Those OE coils are expensive , wow most people don't like spending that kinda money and then you have to figure in labor cost . I don't us OE Parts either . Thanks good video

Valves and timing. Wore out can. Replace cam check keyway.

Hello I have one that does not have a stator so I bought new coil and module do you have a vid on any help to get it hooked up properly?

weak spark rabbit hole. Ignitor, coil ...nope. had everything correct on the ignitor wire or at least I thought. I found transient dc and ac voltage on the kill wire going to the switch. It went away when I unplugged the voltage regulator but the vr wasn't the issue. The wiring harness for the kill wire and the charging system had partially melted and allowed dc voltage on the kill wire confusing the ignitor module. This mower has been hard to start for years but it starts like a champ now. the connector I'm talking about is between the voltage reg and the engine.

Was that new coil and OEM or another aftermarket? I'm running into the same issues with this same engine on my LX172. Haven't changed the coil yet.

you have multimeter set to 2K kilohms or 20k kilohms. I tested my original ignition igniter on 2kilohms and reads 1.38 ohms. where get specs for ohms on igniter . I order new igniter via Amazon. hoping its problem,,, if not going to test coil.

I thought you needed to have the coil off of the machine to ohm test?

I have that same engine in a John Deere that I picked up for free. I am about to install it into a 1988 Toro 11/36 riding mower.

What the ohms on the igniter supposed to be

I just had the same issue. I bypassed the spark generator and it ran fine. What the heck. Taryl Fixes all has a video that relayed newer after market magnetos need to be flipped and the spark module deleted. As a side note the magneto was new and I could not get any spark out of it- I did not flip it. I used an old one out of a junk motor from a walk behind with the spark generator removed from the circuit.

Hello, I just saw this video last night and have a JD 260 with the FC541V engine with the same issues. Did you ever find out why it stalled and wouldn't start after the repair?

turned my coil upside down took the igniter off longer plug wire now it runs fine

The ignitor is probably bad or not properly grounded

When under pressure, the spark might not be strong enough to jump the gap. It takes more energy for a spark to jump when under pressure, than it does at atmospheric conditions.

Unfortunately for me, I lost confidence at 6.00 mark on the ohms readings...hope it ended better but I'll never know...

Change ground point

Mine is doing the same thing after sitting. The battery was dead and I jumped it and ever since it backfires or runs for 10 minutes with a closed gap on the plug. I'm going to order the ignition components and install the next time we're at the property. A simple task as new tires and battery has consumed 2 weeks trying to get it to run so much as when you turned the motor over it made me depressed.

Wow

Is the coil different if the engine has an igniter ?

Change both of them and your done with it , every time, one fails later if you don’t

The kill to coil is still over spec.

Going down one Rabbit hole after the other. First buy the correct BM11 spark igniter.

Your valves set at 6 thousdance brotherman.

shear Pin

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