95 club car igniter

[mjrowley]

Originally Posted by crash12888

This is the same type of ignitor used on two cycle string trimmers and blowers like Echo, Weedeater or Stihl.
I have one with two wires and alligator clips that I test with.
Got any old trimmers laying around you can rob and test with?

What are you cart symtoms?

Crash how do you wire them up?

I have a coil and a ingnitor, but I have no idea how they get their power.

Do they just hook together and bold on to the motor and make spark?

[crash12888]

Yep thats all they do,
The coil has to be correct for the engine but the ignitor can be generic.
It's not like a car that requires 12V to fire the ignition.
Basically It gets a signal from the magnet on the flywheel.
One wire from the ignitor to the coil, ground the ignitor to the block and it should fire the plug.

Keep in mind there are two systems on a cart that affect spark,
1) The engine itself, if sitting on the floor with gas would run because it has a magneto or CDI type ignition, nothing else needed.
2) The cart, It has the kill or grounding circuit in it that is connected to the engine magneto or CDI system.

You need to determine if infact you have a bad component on your engine (ignitor, wire or coil)
Or something in the carts grounding or "kill" circuit that is shorting the above system.

If you will do this test you can isolate your problem.
Disconnect or unplug everything from the wire that comes from the coil under the shroud, hook that wire to the ignitor and ground the ignitor to the block. Push the pedal and check for spark.
These are the only two parts actually needed to fire the spark plug.
If it runs fine you have determined the coil and ignitor are good and you have a bad rev limiter or a intermittent short in the kill circuit.
Plug the wire from the harness back into the coil/ignitor wire, if it runs fine you have a good harness (grounding circuit from cart) and a bad rev limiter.
If it does act up when you plug the grounding wire in the rev limiter is "probably" good and you have a bad micro or wire in the grounding circuit.

Hope this helps on how these systems work.......and I didn't put ya to sleep.




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[scottyb]

[QUOTE=crash12888;403563]Yep thats all they do,
The coil has to be correct for the engine but the ignitor can be generic.
It's not like a car that requires 12V to fire the ignition.
Basically It gets a signal from the magnet on the flywheel.
One wire from the ignitor to the coil, ground the ignitor to the block and it should fire the plug.

Keep in mind there are two systems on a cart that affect spark,
1) The engine itself, if sitting on the floor with gas would run because it has a magneto or CDI type ignition, nothing else needed.
2) The cart, It has the kill or grounding circuit in it that is connected to the engine magneto or CDI system.

You need to determine if infact you have a bad component on your engine (ignitor, wire or coil)
Or something in the carts grounding or "kill" circuit that is shorting the above system.

If you will do this test you can isolate your problem.
Disconnect or unplug everything from the wire that comes from the coil under the shroud, hook that wire to the ignitor and ground the ignitor to the block. Push the pedal and check for spark.
These are the only two parts actually needed to fire the spark plug.
If it runs fine you have determined the coil and ignitor are good and you have a bad rev limiter or a intermittent short in the kill circuit.
Plug the wire from the harness back into the coil/ignitor wire, if it runs fine you have a good harness (grounding circuit from cart) and a bad rev limiter.
If it does act up when you plug the grounding wire in the rev limiter is "probably" good and you have a bad micro or wire in the grounding circuit.

Hope this helps on how these systems work.......and I didn't put ya to sleep.




STICKIE