A friend was sick of his Talon, he bought a new mower.......... It turned up in my carport this morning.............. Looks good...............he said it worked a bit then couldn't start...... Anyway, no spark... I took the starter off and see a peg was loose ....... took the cover off and could not belive what I saw. The threaded peg, was a coil support..... the coil was rubbing against the flywheel... hence no spark. I cleaned up the coil and flywheel with a wire wheel on the drill. Set the coil air gap to 10th inch.Still o spark, so I disconneted the coil cut out wire, Now a spark..... Put it back together. I had to use vice grips to tighten the coil peg as there was no nut edges on it..... Anyway it started with the electric drill start, and I mowed a bit of the front lawn..... smooth engine, as it didn't look like it has done much work........ It's 19 in cut..... a bit of a monster............... cheers speedy
........................Keep your blades sharp......................
Good thing there speedy, if the motor gives up you can always fit a Powertorque to it. Yes they are a bit of a tank, I can't imagine why some manufacturers build them big like that when steel costs money. MTD also springs to mind
I haven't fitted the motors on these MF, I painted them but haven't had a chance to finish them off but I will probably do that today depending on what else happens.
I've had one with a disintegrating brass tank filter clogging the carby.
They aren't the best, but one of my friends has one and beside the carby clogs, and wheels falling off, it has been reliable - and it has been hammered hard on a 1200 sqm block.
