[AT] testing a coil

[Greg Hass]

My skidsteer had a Kohler K-582S engine.  I put up with that piece of junk 
for 22 years.  Points would last from 3 hours to 100 hours.  The first set 
gave out at 100 hours of use.  (I bought the machine new.)  My brother had 
the same model machine, but got rid of his after 5 years because of point 
problems which gave him a lot of trouble.  We (and the dealers) went 
through the books several times, looking for causes and suspecting a 
resister.  The books all said the coil had an internal resister, and thus 
no other resister was required.   We tried everything (including replacing 
the coil with a new one - $90) and nothing worked.  Thank God I'm finally 
rid of that piece of junk.  (The engine, not the skidsteer.)  It got 
replace with a 24hp Honda engine.

Greg Hass
Bad Axe