[AT] Adding electric start

[Steve W.]

Ralph Goff wrote:
> The old Wisconsin engines with the impulse magneto would start on a very 
> slow pull .
> The Briggs engines I always found needed a good long windup and as fast 
> as you could
> pull them. I don't think they had the impulse mag as you don't hear the 
> click.
> The solenoid has quit again on my electric start single cylinder Kohler 
> grain auger
> engine. I can start it by pulling on the drive belt fairly easy. Or else 
> use a screw driver
> to short out the solenoid terminals. Seems this engine is hard on 
> solenoids. On the other
> hand, the Kohler 11 hp in my old JD lawn tractor has a trouble free 
> electric start system
> that only requires occasional battery replacement.
> 
> Ralph in Sask.

Ralph, I have a Kohler that likes to eat solenoids as well. After I had 
to pull the tractor apart to replace it twice I grabbed a common Ford 
style solenoid and wired that in up next to the battery. Moved the lower 
end of the cable so the solenoid there wasn't doing anything.

-- 
Steve W.