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Spec number for this engine on fan housing #315592A
I checked and no spark. disconnected kill wire to coil and still no spark.
Pulled the flywheel and check flywheel key, found good.
Inspected the points and the contacts are clean, checked with ohm meter disconnected from primary wire to coil.
Measured secondary winding resistance of coil and have 5K ohms.
Cleaned OD of flywheel of any rust and the coil pickups also. Magnet feels strong.
Set gap at .015 for coil.
I did find a manual that explains how to set ignition timing but haven't done that yet.
Looks like points and coil are not available but I did find a ignition coil with module on Amazon for this engine.
Any thoughts on this ?
Thanks.

Well there is a slight problem even looking up that engine as we know if it a FA210A, FA210D, FA210R, or FA210V. But being a points system so disconnecting the coil kill wire will not test the coil as the points and condenser must be working.

Thanks for your reply.
The fan housing cover says this is a 210F
I looked that up and come to a dead end. 210D seems to be the most common engine family.
How can disconnecting the kill wire to the system not make spark ?
The kill wire grounds the system so there isn't any spark.

Usually if you get no spark with kill wire unplugged that indicates something is wrong with one or all of the parts that aid in delivering spark. Removing the kill wire just rules out a bad kill switch or wire shorted to ground among other things

Scrubcadet10 said:

Usually if you get no spark with kill wire unplugged that indicates something is wrong with one or all of the parts that aid in delivering spark. Removing the kill wire just rules out a bad kill switch or wire shorted to ground among other things

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I understand this.
Was looking for someone who might have had a problem with this point and coil system.

any point systems will eventually have trouble, they wear out.
you might can get rid of the points and condenser and replace it with one of those Kawasaki igniters,

I was thinking the same thing...

or a nova type module, both basically do the same thing.

Except the Nova are available in dual polarity where the Kawasaki unit are negative ground only.

The answers I'm getting are ideas I have thought of also.
Should there only be 5K ohms measured at the spark plug wire of the coil ?
And did you read my last sentence of my original post ?
"Looks like points and coil are not available but I did find a ignition coil with module on Amazon for this engine.
Any thoughts on this ?"

5K is in reason; although, 6K-10K is better. Did you check the primary resistance? This is actually check-able on points coils. It should be around 0.6 ~ 1.10 ohms. I just wish Kawasaki actually publish these resistances in the SM for FA210 but they didn't so I referring to the FE120 coil resistances.

The primary side wire has the condenser soldered between the points and coil.
I didn't check it as I didn't know if it would effect the ohm reading.

what machine is this engine on?

2300 watt generator.
Name on blower housing label is Ajax Corporation.
I think this is the serial number for it S/N 28235.

Richie F said:

The primary side wire has the condenser soldered between the points and coil.
I didn't check it as I didn't know if it would effect the ohm reading.

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Usually condenser(capacitor) has a low reading until charged but should still allow the reading of the primary resistance as the coil side will have lower resistance than the capacitor.