Rusty,m don,t know if this will help, but. If the wires are green they come from the coil to a vac pick up sw. in frone of the vac. I have a troy built in 88 or 89. vac/ chipper tech engine 4 hp. It has a solid state engine.

darg

Thanks, Darg: Upon looking further, i deduced that the wires came from the ignition block under the flywheel cover, and are nothing more than a key operated grounding mechanism. So, i'll fix that. I also bought a new battery for it. The old one looked nice, but was double stone dead! Nothing would bring it back to life. And now, with a lawn tractor, a dead snow blower/thrower, and a bench model, wood lathe, a box of junk, and some other items, i can't get into my garage, to work on it, and also---three inches of snow fell on everything today! RATS! And, Spring is on the way!! Maybe next week--hopefully. RJ

Glad to see you are still here Rusty!

Cheers

Rolf

Thanks, Rolf: Yes, every day i can open my eyes, and crawl out of bed, is a good one! I'm just about ready to open the garage again, if the snow will just stay away, and the warm spring breezes come in.
I'm going to load the truck first, and pitch out a bunch of scrap things that have been gathering here. I got $33 for six aluminum lawn chairs, the non-folding type, minus their straps and plastic fittings, bolts nuts, etc. takes a bit of time to get them ready but the price for aluminum is much better if clean.

Worked on the tiller yesterday and today. Everything works, after a good carb cleaning, and some other things, including oil change, tank clean, petcock replaced, new battery, and found the shutoff wire that goes to the key switch. But, the other wire i thought went to the start solenoid, but when i connected it, i got SMOKE! The end of that wire, where it came out from under the fly-wheel cover, appeared to have had a fuse on it, but all that was left was a little plastic nub, on the end where the wire was broken off.
So, since the fuel shut-off was bad, i bought a new one, and screwed it in the tank outlet, installed the hose, put in some gas, turned the key to start and-------nothing! Checked, and no gas coming out of tank! Gas was 1/4 full. Starter worked. So, i drained the tank, unscrewed the new shut-off valve, and blew thru it----nothing came thru it. HMMM.? Took it back to store-guy checked it, then drilled thru the casting where the factory didn't, and it now giffs fuel to carb. And, he gave me a big bag of Speedy Dry! Free! And, it runs, and shuts off. but, that other wire has me stumped! Any ideas? by: Rusty Jones