No Spark? Bad Coil? Maybe Not ! EASY FIX & How To Diagnose quickly

Rob walks us through how to quickly test your ignition coil on your zero turn mower or your blower , weed eater, and or most small engines and pieces of equipment.

[glencoughlan]

Guys like you are the DIY's go to in diagnosing problems such as this, thanks for not being a turd and taking the time to help people out.

[deanraymond]

AWESOME VIDEO SAVED ME FROM JUNKING A JOHN DEERE 72 I TRASH PICKED . THANKS AND THUMBS 👍 UP .

[lesterhermine]

Thank you sooo much!! You would not believe how many videos I have been looking at to figure out my issue. Mower cranks, starter turns, but ride on will not start. Dodgy PTO switch seemingly getting in the way of it all working. Machine non-responsive for couple months, fixed by pulling PTO up and knocking it closed with a hard whack. Starts immediately. 👍🙏

[dockwik]

Hey, thanks...
I just found out my choke spring was missing..
I would have been stuck without this vid!

[prsplayr]

Your video saved me $65 on not having to purchase a new coil. Thanks again Rob for kindly sharing your expertise with us.

[broncman]

This totally helped me out today. Thanks brother!

[paulross]

Great diagnosis, simple but effective!

[georgiabandit]

Nice video to learn from I know I had a Riding lawn mower few weeks back would not do nothing when you hit the key . checked every safety switch on it. Come to find out that switch that plugs in the hood lights the black wire was broken. Hood was shut on it I guess. Thanks for the video.

[LM-yskr]

I'm not a mechanic but had my uncle help & I had a loose nut to the stator or something that fixed my mower. So must've vibrated loose

[jewermank]

I'm fighting this same issue, thanks man

[mrfixit]

I have an issue with a chainsaw and I am fresh out of options. Spark was intermittent so I cleaned the coil contacts. I now have good spark and I cleaned the carburetor, but the part that bewilders me is I usually spray starter fluid in the carb to determine a carb problem but it won't kick even when I spray with starting fluid. There is some scoring on the piston head and wondering if it could be that, but wouldn't it at least kick and stall?

[BritishBeachcomber]

*First thing I do on a new/old machine is bypass the seat switch. Who wants the engine to die every time you jump off to open a field gate?*

[grumpyR]

I have an old toro proline and I have been told it has an ignitor? It doesn’t have a starter, I have to pull start it and it seems to not have spark. It worked the night before and the next day, nothing?

[jeffhoffer]

I have a mower that the coil keeps going out on. The coils I’ve gotten are new and match the owners manual part number.
What can cause this issue? I never thought to meter the new coil for continuity, can they just be junk from the start?
I didn’t hook up the kill wire on the last new coil and it still never sparked. My gap is set correct on both coil and plug. Am I missing something?

[thorthunder]

I got a 94 ford with spark but the spark is yellow. why? will not run even though the spark plugs fire but has yellow fire, not blue.

[bretttoups]

What if your seat switch for a gravely has 3 wires? How to test or jump that out?

[andystevenson]

Hi what do I do if I still don't have spark with a brand coil and that ground unplugged and a brand new spark plug??

[hellogoodbye]

Buy a multimeter! A simple circuit test can make all the difference.