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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monteman_73

· #4 · Jan 6, 2012

JTalley said:
I have a Wizard lawnmower with a 14.5 hp Briggs, and I can't get it to start. When I turned the key, it would crank until it started to build up compression. Then it would stop.

Does it spin a few times, then stop? If so, chances are you don't have the best connection. Did your friend use his cables, or yours? If he used his, chances are his cables are better than yours.

Does the engine spins less than twice and stops? And if you wait a few minutes, it will do it again? Is it an OVH engine? (Over Head Valve) If so, the valves may need adjusting, because the clearance may be too great and won't allow the Compression Release to do its job. If adjusting doesn't help, then the compression release may be bad.

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