Floyd Baxter
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Hi all. This is driving me nuts. new battery (verified over 12v), new starter, new magneto from flywheel to spark plug, new spark plug, tried 2 new starter solenoids, replaced ignition switch, replaced blade push button safety switch, replaced brake push button switch and still no luck. Ground wires look fine---I even undid ground, scraped paint, and put back. Battery to solenoid is hot (lights up) but not hot to starter from the solenoid. It tries weakly to turn over but not near enough to start. I took another battery and connected directly to starter, as a bypass---no luck. Today I even bought a new cable and connected it direct from starter solenoid to starter and no luck (I was guessing existing cable could have a cut in it---how I dont know). Fuse near starter solenoid looks fine. I don't see any wires out of place or cut up.
Here's the big clue: upon turning key there's a loud noise below the battery (which is under the seat and where the solenoid is). The noise is not just a mild click, its more a rattling, and its loud. Strangely even when I'm not sitting on the mower this noise happens (I'd have thought the seat safety switch would not allow anything to happen at all). This is a briggs 18.5hp INTEK. I'd hate to pay to have it hauled in and have it be an easy fix. It was kind of fun initially but now I'm going nuts, although not in a huge hurry given its November.
My last guess is alternator but I am skeptical and only guess that because I have no other ideas. Safety switch under seat maybe? I doubt that one too.
thoughts?
Here's the big clue: upon turning key there's a loud noise below the battery (which is under the seat and where the solenoid is). The noise is not just a mild click, its more a rattling, and its loud. Strangely even when I'm not sitting on the mower this noise happens (I'd have thought the seat safety switch would not allow anything to happen at all). This is a briggs 18.5hp INTEK. I'd hate to pay to have it hauled in and have it be an easy fix. It was kind of fun initially but now I'm going nuts, although not in a huge hurry given its November.
My last guess is alternator but I am skeptical and only guess that because I have no other ideas. Safety switch under seat maybe? I doubt that one too.
thoughts?