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I'm hoping you guys might be able to help me out here. The Suburban 400 I got last year has been great since I got it. It was the only one of the lot of 4 that ran awesome. Well I used it to plow a couple of the smaller storms here over the winter and I wanted to mow yesterday. Well it wont start at all now. Fresh fuel, fresh plug and still very weak yellow/no spark. Where are the coils and points etc. on these little Kohlers? I know nothing about the little K series and could really use some help fixing her up tomorrow.

 

Thanks in advance for all suggestions

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buckrancher

coil and condenser are under the flywheel

points are under a cover on the side under the carburator

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I'm hoping you guys might be able to help me out here. The Suburban 400 I got last year has been great since I got it. It was the only one of the lot of 4 that ran awesome. Well I used it to plow a couple of the smaller storms here over the winter and I wanted to mow yesterday. Well it wont start at all now. Fresh fuel, fresh plug and still very weak yellow/no spark. Where are the coils and points etc. on these little Kohlers? I know nothing about the little K series and could really use some help fixing her up tomorrow.

 

Thanks in advance for all suggestions

Coil is uner the flywheel and point are on the left front of motor. If you got any snow up under the flywheel it could just be rusted up. Remove fly wheel to see, clean up with sand paper

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