[AT] kholer / coil

[Dan Glass]

I have had a similar problem with Kohler engines, finally someone told 
me to change the ignition to the Kohler brand transistor ignition.  Most 
dealers never heard of it.  I now go ahead and make the ignition change 
at the first sign of any problem and now find that Kohlers are very 
reliable, start very easy  and seem to run forever.

Greg Hass wrote:

> Yes, we replaced the condensor several times.  In fact, one time on my 
> brother's machine (a day after replacing the points and condensor), it 
> quit in the middle of his yard on his way to feed his cattle.  We 
> checked point gap, etc. and in deperation we finally put the old 
> condensor back on.  It ran fine.  The new condensor had lasted one 
> day.  During the time we had them, each of us had replced the coil 
> with an original equipment Kohler coil, and it didn't help the 
> situation any.  On the advice of our parts supplier, we even went to a 
> heavy duty set of points which had a stronger spring.  We also tried 
> to get a solid state ignition replacement for this engine, but none is 
> available.  Due to its design (a 2-cylinder engine), both plugs fire 
> at once - one at the end of compression and one at the end of 
> exhaust.  This also caused a problem in that if one plug got wet, 
> neither one would fire.  We finally came to the conclusion it was just 
> a bad design by Kohler.
>
> Greg Hass
> Bad Axe, MI
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