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I am looking for an ignition coil for a 21" 6.5hp Craftsman Push mower. Model#917. 388571.
I have looked everywhere for one. I have had this push mower forever and it's just now messing up on. I have other mowers but they are for my business. This one I keep home and use. Please contact me if u have one or knows where one is.
Thanks!!

Need the engine Model, should be stamped on the metal blower housing either above the spark plug or muffler.

Yeah Sorry!!
It's 123K02 0258 E1 031218 FA

802574 Armature, Magneto, No boot included reuse old rubber boot if present

793353 Armature, Magneto, Metal boot

BTW that is a fairly young engine (2003) when to the 1963 I repaired last month.

StarTech said:

802574 Armature, Magneto, No boot included reuse old rubber boot if present

793353 Armature, Magneto, Metal boot

BTW that is a fairly young engine (2003) when to the 1963 I repaired last month.

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I will check those out. Thanks

1963- what model was that

StarTech said:

802574 Armature, Magneto, No boot included reuse old rubber boot if present

793353 Armature, Magneto, Metal boot

BTW that is a fairly young engine (2003) when to the 1963 I repaired last month.

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Hey Star Tech! These 2 part#'s looks nothing like my ignition coil. What is having you say that they can be used on mine?

Bigdaddy's Craftsman said:

Hey Star Tech! These 2 part#'s looks nothing like my ignition coil. What is having you say that they can be used on mine?

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Briggs Dealer Power Portal engine look-up.

Those are the current versions of the coil. Your coil probably looks like this older style. Briggs recently changed the design and that why they look differently but Briggs Pwer Portal eParts is showing both the numbers I gave as the current version. The new versions are direct replacements. The main difference internally is that Briggs has gone to a surface mount circuit board.

Old Style
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New Style


Copy eParts screen


Does this help clarify things?

Parts Tree shows:
Briggs & Stratton 802574
(Superseded to 590454) 
802754 is one of the numbers star tech posted, and Briggs probably just changed the design of it, and superseded to a new #

Correct Scrubcadet10 on the supersede. I just didn't input the ePart SKU through my system here. Just not a part I have ever needed the OEM version here in my shop as I rarely see a walk behind any more but I do stock the Stens version. NOTE "B1" is an in-house prefix as I have nearly 800,000 SKU numbers on my system.

I just wanted to make sure before I purchased it.
Thanks so much Star Tech and Scrubcadet10

StarTech said:

Correct Scrubcadet10 on the supersede. I just didn't input the ePart SKU through my system here. Just not a part I have ever needed the OEM version here in my shop as I rarely see a walk behind any more but I do stock the Stens version. NOTE "B1" is an in-house prefix as I have nearly 800,000 SKU numbers on my system.
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Star Tech, did u just laugh because I still have a walk behind. Lol
I only ever had 2 problems with it. I had to change out the flywheel key, and when I was putting everything back together the coil started messing up...

Not at all. Walk behinds still have a place yet. The mower I laughed at was one at Walmart. It was a tiny rider that if I sat on it, it probably would have vanished under my 250 lb body.

It's just the market seems to have made them so cheap that repair shops labor + parts just makes too costly to repair when compared to replacement. Same thing has happen to string trimmers too.

Heck when I was a teenager I was cutting a full two acres weekly with a 20" push mower. When I finally got a job I brought a rider. You know what I wrecked the first month I had it. I ran straight into to a tree while ducking limbs.

Just remember to torque the flywheel nut to 55 lb/ft (74.5 Nm).

Thanks Brother!!

StarTech said:

Correct Scrubcadet10 on the supersede. I just didn't input the ePart SKU through my system here. Just not a part I have ever needed the OEM version here in my shop as I rarely see a walk behind any more but I do stock the Stens version. NOTE "B1" is an in-house prefix as I have nearly 800,000 SKU numbers on my system.
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Scrubcadet10 and Star Tech, Thank you. It came in and I put it on, and it works perfect.
I'm going to go ahead and do a Carburetor Overhaul Kit on it also.
You wouldn't happen to have the Part# on that also??

Briggs & Stratton 498261 superseded to 498260

I knew I count on yall.. Thanks Scrubcadet10.