My garden tractor ( the one I paid $50.00 for about 17 years ago)has started to fail to spark; its a 14 horse Kohler and needs an ignition module; anybody got a discount source for parts?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), September 24, 2001

Answers

Check out gardenwebs garden tractor fourm http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/tractor/

-- Gary (gws@redbird.net), September 24, 2001.

I converted my 12 HP Kohler engine to the older style points/condenser/coil when the high tech/expensive module conked out. It's ran trouble free for around 25 years since the conversion. Might be a cheaper alternative if you can find points to fit your engine. Used automotive coils are easy to find and condensers are cheap.

-- Paul (hoyt@egyptian.net), September 24, 2001.

If this is a single cylinder engine, I imagine you can use a generic module made to convert old point ignition engines. Walmart and TSC used to carry them locally, but its been lot of years since point ignitions, so I now have to order them mailorder. Just bought 5 this spring from northern hydraulics. That should last me a few years unless somebody hires me to fix something that requires one. Minimum shipping and handling is too high to just order one. Anyway I use them on my chainsaws which go thru a module every 3 or 4 years and occasionally a lawnmower. Just splice into the kill wire from the magneto. No need to remove old module (most originals are molded into magneto body anyway). Paying $10 for a generic addon module sure beats close to $50+ for a new original equipment magneto/module combo. Now I dont know that I ever worked on a Kohler with ignition module so who knows it might be different somehow, but I doubt it. Only Kohler I have for my own use uses points. Older cast iron Kohlers are nice engines, couldnt say about newer aluminum ones.

-- Hermit John (hermit@hilltop_homestead.zzn.com), September 24, 2001.

I e mailed a site for discount kohler parts and they said my numbers are for tecumseh OH14 spec160032a, the air blower does not fit just right, maybe I have a hybred motor. There is no mounting plate under the flywheel, that space is occupied by the built in alternator. The present module is operated by two pins mounted in the flywheel about 10 degrees apart that sweep by a sensor.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), September 24, 2001.

I tried a search with numbers you posted and got nothing. Is your engine a two cylinder? If it is you are stuck finding original equip parts. If it is a single cylinder with a magneto, you probably can still use a universal ignition module. It wont need flywheel sensor.

-- Hermit John (hermit@hilltop_homestead.zzn.com), September 24, 2001.