The mower conked out and I found that the repair I did on the magneto had failed. I replaced the entire unit and it is back to running fine.
I have some magneto's that have had their high tension leads cut (probably from forcing the cowl over them in an incorrect position). I just work the broken lead out and replace it by pushing and glueing another HT lead from a known bad magneto.I can see the connection pin in the magneto and I have to take care to line up the HT lead with that pin. In this case all the vibration made it come out as the glue hadn't set properly.
Maybe I should start a new thread but is there a better way of doing this?
How about stripping the broken HT lead at the end, expose the copper, then solder a replacement HT lead to it. After that use hot melt glue and insulating tape around the join to finish it off?
Last edited by sparker; 26/04/18 10:45 AM.
