149 Getting spark only when turning key off

[Yosemite Sam]

Have you tried running a wire directly to the + side of the battery to + side of the coil and then looking for spark.

There isn't a fusible link in a 149 that I'm aware of.

Is it possible that your battery doesn't have enough poop to turn the S/G and make fire at the same time???

You REALLY need check your wire loom and get the V/R hooked up before you go any further, either that or disconnect all the wires to the engine and S/G and wire it like you were starting the engine on the ground. And then see if it runs or not. In any event if you want this thing to ever get anywhere, sooner or later you're gonna have to... Check your wire loom and get the V/R hooked up...

[tinkerin tim]

The attached photo is of the inside of the VR. On the right you can see the gap in the solder like material. This happened when I hooked up the VR with the B and F reversed (an earlier post). a guy at Radio Shack said that this was fusible link. Like solder with a copper strand running through it. They didn't have any. I don't know where to get some. That's why the VR isnt hooked up.

Looking at the schematic I don't see why the VR is needed to start the engine.

The battery measures 12.38 V. Turns over fairly fast.

I'll try bat. + to coil+ in the morning.

Tim

[R Bedell]

This is what is takes to start up a Kohler,,,,,, Diagram

[R Bedell]

Darrell:

Is this what you are looking for....??

[tinkerin tim]

Ok Roland, you can stop tearing your hair out about the fusible link(I still need to find some.)

Anyways, I installed the VR with a drop of solder completing the link(after unwinding one of the little twists where it attaches at the top in order to make the gap smaller). With sparkplug removed but still hooked to lead, I got repeated sparking. Hooray! Put all back together. No spark. I had taken off the breaker points cover last night and it turns out that the lug on the wire to the points was shorting out on the points cover. Took care of that and she popped and then caught and filled the barn with blue smoke.

As my grandfather would have said "I'm happier than a pig in s***".
Now I have to set the mixture and idle which will be pure fun. This is the first time that I've heard a single Kohler run. No smoke at all now. This is too cool.

I want to thank all here for answering all of my questions as well as the questions of others that have been so informative.

Now I have to get front tires mounted on the painted wheels,paint the hood and front end white and I'll get to drive a a CC for the first time.

Thanks again

Tim

[ACecil]

That's awesome, Tim! Glad you got your cub going! Isn't it a great feeling!

[tinkerin tim]

Wild Bill,
I have all of the original manuals.(Service for chassis, engine, and owners).
That's part of the reason it started right up after I found the short.
Now I have to do all the adjusting (toe-in,idle,hydro etc.) What's not in the manuals I can find here. Thanks. Back to the barn.

Tim

[johncub7172]

Glad to here you got'er going! I know the feeling.....Now your hooked on these IH Cub Cadets! hehe! Good times!