[AT] kholer / coil

[Chris Britton]

While it was probably an incorrect coil specified for that unit, did you 
replace the condensor?  Bad condensors = short point life.

Soundguy

>From: Greg Hass <gkhass at avci.net>
>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