181se no spark

[Brandon Bondeson]

I just put back together a 181se and i was in my basement it had very powerful spark, so i put the plug in to see if it fired, it did, so i walked outside to start it and tune it no fire went back to the bench pulled the plug no spark tried new plug no spark,
Now i am vary familiar with saws i was just wandering if anyone had any thoughts before i tear it apart


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[burnses]

ck the kill switch if it might be shorted....disconnect it and see if ya have spark...

 

[svk]

How much gap between the coil and the magnets on the flywheel? We just had to regap my 266/272 because we had sporadic soark due to too much gap.

 

[Daserlon]

The previous posts are the the problems i've had with my x81's, 288s. Good info.

 

[Brandon Bondeson]

ck the kill switch if it might be shorted....disconnect it and see if ya have spark...

Didn't work


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[Dieseldash]

If it's a two piece coil make sure the wires between the coils aren't grounding out or cut/broke. I've had to repair the the wires on one of mine. Also the plug wire boot might be messed up connecting to the plug.

 

[Brandon Bondeson]

Thanks for all the help everyone it turns out the coil was not set right so i reset it with some printer paper and sure enough she sparked, as a matter of fact i was holding the plug housing wrong and it sent me up a good foot of the ground [emoji23].

But now that thats fixed i went outside to start it and broke the starter rope[emoji35] but i'll get it eventually!


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[romad10]

use a business card as a spacer for the flywheel pickup. you mentioned paper but i hope it was not a single piece. hate to see your flywheel slam into the pickup.

 

[Brandon Bondeson]

Yes i used doubled up computer paper and she runs beautiful


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