Robbin engine won't start

[JPonLKN]

You will need the male connector for the ignitor and pigtail each of the wires, or just buy a MCI wiring harness. It is a 6 pin connector. Might be able to buy one online, but I wouldn't have the foggiest idea how to locate one. Your best bet is to find a cart junk yard and cut one off a junk machine.

Worst case scenario, you can buy small spade connectors and wire directly to the pins on the ignitor. Might even be the easiest option. You just need to know which pin goes where, and I happen to know someone with a MCI machine that can get you a photo of the wiring harness.

[Badazzharley]

Wow that would be great

[trig123]

They make a connector where you just plug yours in. I have converted a few over. You need the MCI coil also and those wires are in a kit.

I can tell you the MCI coils will work on the Pre Mci engine but not sure about the other way. The MCI coils are supposed to be hotter .

Maybe someone has a good used MCI ignitor and coil. You can call an ezgo dealer and they can tell you what wiring you need. If you don't find a dealer that knows I can give you a number of a person who knows.


Muffler on MCI is larger inside. Part of the upgrade in 2004
Google country cat. They are a dealer

[CP241]

Originally Posted by trig123

They make a connector where you just plug yours in. I have converted a few over. You need the MCI coil also and those wires are in a kit.

I can tell you the MCI coils will work on the Pre Mci engine but not sure about the other way. The MCI coils are supposed to be hotter .

Maybe someone has a good used MCI ignitor and coil. You can call an ezgo dealer and they can tell you what wiring you need. If you don't find a dealer that knows I can give you a number of a person who knows.


Muffler on MCI is larger inside. Part of the upgrade in 2004
Google country cat. They are a dealer

I have used a pre-mci coil on a mci motor with no problems also. I had to modify the bracket slightly so the wires reached the plugs, but it worked without issue. The mci coil mounts straight up and down and the pre mci mounts at a slight angle (or the other way around, I don’t remember now) but with a little tweak it worked great.

[Badazzharley]

OMG! I'm so stupid. I bought the new motor a couple months ago and just now had the time to install it. I had forgotten that the guy I bought it from told me that if I was installing it in an older cart I would need to change out the igniter and he gave me the MCI igniter with the wiring pigtail. So now all I need is a wiring diagram or somebody that can tell which wires on the igniter splice into the old harness on the cart. Here is a picture of what I have to work with.

[JPonLKN]

Well that would be a brain fart, now wouldn't it. That looks like what you need.
wiring diagram.jpg

Ignitor wiring.PNG

Solenoid diagram.PNG

Wiring picture.PNG
Maybe these will keep you busy.

[Badazzharley]

Great! Time to put on my reading glasses and get to work. Thank you so much for the diagrams. I let you know how it turns out. Hopefully it will be going putt putt soon.

[Badazzharley]

Ok I spliced the mci ingniter into my old wiring harness, plugged it all together and IT RUNS!! Thank you to everyone that helped and gave me the answers I needed. Just for future reference to somebody reading this thread for the same issue: All you need is an mci igniter. The pre mci coil works fine. Here is a picture of my modified mci igniter. Thanks again to all.

[JPonLKN]

Glad you were able to get it working...Good on the guy that sold you the motor to make sure you got the MCI ignitor with the motor.

[Badazzharley]

Well I guess I spoke to soon. Yes it starts and runs but it has no power at all. Will creep along at 2 mph. I know one of you mentioned the carb may not work as the mci ones are smaller. Do you think this may be the issue?