Recent content by gwbrehm

Only if you know what you are looking at! I cant make much sense out of them

Took the plug apart, cleaned it, re-crimped wires and applied dilectric grease. I have test started it over a dozen times and no issues. Weird that this particular mower has positive voltage to all the kill switches most i have dealt with in the past were grounding switches. Thanks again for...

Found it!!!! One of the leads on the neutral switch plug. I had it jumped for testing but checking it for a voltage drop i noticed it was getting very warm. Twisted the wire and now starts everytime. Thank you for all your help. I would have just thrown parts at it not knowing it was a bad...

Probably not, because s1 voltage drops to 6.5 also when in start mode

I tested voltage on ignition switch, s1 had 13V and when turned to start S2 only had 6.5v. I assume that means a bad contact inside the switch?

I will try, but the wiring diagrams look like greek to me

Now for some reason when it sits a while it will start, but if you turn it off it will not start again unless you wait several hours. Then it starts again, but only once, then you have to wait again. Also the Lx188 switch is different

i have a working lx188, i wonder if it uses same switch? i could swap it out to make sure thats the issue

tried the jumper cable from battery to solenoid and no change

Now it gets crazy! Cleaned up some terminals and changed out battery for kicks and it started up an ran great. Turned it off and tried again and back to no start and 6.5 volts going to spade terminal on solenoid. Happened twice now and goes back to low voltage on spade terminal. Do you think its...

I grounded battery to frame with jumper cable to ensure a good ground and tested solenoid. Now with key in start position, spade terminal on solenoid is 6.52 volts and nothing on starter terminal. Tried jumping battery (grabing at straws) and no change. I am going to check ground points.

Just checked solenoid again using engine as ground and no voltage on spade terminal or starter post. Since the issue is in circuit board, which is connected to ignition switch, can it be repaired or am i looking at a new switch/board? Mine is the older board with a single relay.

I was using battery ground for testing

I thought so also, that is why I was thinking it was the ignition switch or PTO switch

I actually replaced the solenoid and it did same thing, then i removed the starter and solenoid and took it to a rebuilder to have it tested. It worked perfectly. It has a kawasaki engine and the solenoid is mounted to the starter.