Problem with electric start...

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JTalley

Discussion Starter · Jan 6, 2012

I'm honestly not sure where this would go, (sorry) so I decided to post it here. I have a Wizard lawnmower with a 14.5 hp Briggs, and I can't get it to start. I don't have a battery, so I hooked up a car battery with jumper cables. When I turned the key, it would crank until it started to build up compression. Then it would stop. I thought it was the starter, but after cleaning it up quite a bit and oiling it, I had the same problem. Someone came in and hooked up the cables the same way I had, and it fired right up. I figured I didn't have a good connection, and that would be the end of the problems. Later on I came out, hooked the cables in the same spot that they did, the exact same way, and it did the same thing it had done earlier. I've tried hooking up the cables to the battery terminals, and I've tried hooking one on the frame and one on the starter. I've jiggled them to get a better connection, tried different spots, same problem. What's going on?

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engine2quarters

· #7 · Jan 7, 2012

Just a wild thought, I wonder if the bolts that hold the motor to the frame are loose. If the battery is connected to the frame, a poor connection between the engine and frame will exhibit this condition.
It may have just been a stroke of luck that your friend got it going so quickly. The motor might have made a good frame to motor connection when you tried starting it. Check all your connections, ie. battery to pos lead, pos lead to solenoid, solenoid to starter, motor to frame, frame to neg cable, neg cable to battery (or jumper cables). Clean and retighten connections.

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