That means that either the wire has a bare spot and is making contact with the engine shorting out the wire, or the kill switch itself has failed. And seems like that has the newer style momentary switch not the grounding tab style kill system, and I have seen a couple of those fail over the last few years.
Chase down the wire to find where center conductor touches ground and kills spark. You have problem in hand. Some sort of grounding device/switch or wire bare some place for OFF. Sometimes putting it back together and "all is well"!
Chase down the wire to find where center conductor touches ground and kills spark. You have problem in hand. Some sort of grounding device/switch or wire bare some place for OFF. Sometimes putting it back together and "all is well"!
Also, you need VOM meter attached to measure for short on wire loosened from coil, and start wiggling things to find what remove the short like resistance of ZERO ohms.
Maybe check to see if the bail cable isn't bad. It may not have sufficient tension to disengage whatever kill system is on the mower.
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Its Me
If you have done all that they have suggested which were all correct, remove the coil, sand or file the two bosses that stick up on the engine and the coil where it connects to them, re set the gap and use a screwdriver inserted into where the plug goes hole it close to the frame to see if it will spark, of course with the kill wire removed and if this does not work it is the coil, they need a surface ground, bolt will not give a proper ground, good luck, Joe
