Hi,

Wow, what great responses. This is a wonderful forum.

Norm,
You may be right about the carby. Strangely this carby has always been very slow to fill the float bowl when starting after a few weeks stopped. I thought it might have been a partially clogged in-tank fuel filter but now I'm not so sure. This carby is the early one with the idle adjustment already there. Years ago I removed the kill switch wires to a new push button switch. I have a carby on a Powertorque which goes like a rocket. Too fast actually it needs your modification. I'll swap it over to see if there is any improvement.

Ltd and Speedy,

That coil modification interests me. I actually did get it to run last Saturday with the coil air gap very close. It actually touched the flywheel and made a tapping noise.When I put it slightly further away no further action.

The coil is MAO 5506A but it looks like that MAO 5529 will fit. I do need a new coil anyway as with all the attention it received one of the metal low tension tags has broken, I was able to solder on a wire and it did run after that but it will be problematic in the long term.

From what I see the mods suggested involve moving the coil further up the centre armature prong closer to the flywheel. Hmm thats not difficult to do but you would think it wouldn't make any difference as the induced magnetism should flow right through those prongs. But it obviously does so I'll try it. By the way on my mower that spring clip has always had the tag on the side away from the flywheel , not on the other side as seems common.

I have a new module which may not be needed although the old one showed 6.55Kohm supposedly too high. Its a pity you are so far away Speedy , postage would be expensive.

Also, has anyone found a way of getting a feeler gauge in to the air gap on the starter side without removing the side starter. Its easy to get one in if you take the starter off but that is not for the fainthearted.

I had pretty much given up and was thinking of giving this unit a long holiday in a far away corner under the house but now I am inclined to try once more.

Thanks very much
Jeff