sho305,
did they switch rotation on these like club car did? the starter I pulled came off a Yamaha, so unless A1/A2 got switched on the old one, it should be OK on rotation. It will run at idle, just nothing above idle, won't speed up enough to engage the clutch.
On the air box issue, is it a seal issue around the top?
Where is the ignitor located on these? Do the pickups on the flywheel go bad? Does it have pickups on the flywheel?
I can bring a spool of wire along with me next time and I can run some ground jumpers to test every **** electrical item for bad ground. It's beginning to annoy me since I opened my big mouth when I found the first bad connection at the battery and said something like "Oh, we should have this back up and running in no time."
Headed back to take a 2nd look Tuesday so if you have any other ideas on things I should check let me know, before about 9:00 AM.
I will post results...