Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: dalemellor on April 12, 2013, 07:32
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After a good 4 years of running like a dream the F400 has done me!
Used it at the weekend, as always started first time after a long storage, used for a good few hours on and off. Stopped it because the old boy next door wanted a chin wag and since then hasnt ran.... :(
I've swapped the plug and tried it with the plug out and there is no visible spark.......had my fingers in the plug cap and felt a little tingle but not the shock i expected.....
was thinking either the switch ?! or something more technical
Never tinkered with a honda normally B & S checking points etc
Any helpful hints from the Honda Guru's would be appreciated
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check the plug for soot, if its just running a bit rich it may have sooted the plug up, a sooty plug is always more difficult to start.
Grendel
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Have swapped for a new plug, as that was my first path of least reistance!
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could be ignition coil ,condensor or points causing problem ,think there about £30-£40 to replace so not cheap.also maybe plug lead .hope you get it sorted acer
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It might also be that the oil level is too low. Some Honda's are fitted with a device to kill the ignition when the oil level drops.
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It might also be that the oil level is too low. Some Honda's are fitted with a device to kill the ignition when the oil level drops.
or even too full I believe, a friend who works at B&Q says many returned 'non working' machines come back with too much oil.
Grendel
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If no spark and have eliminated a kill switch fault by disconnecting its wires? you will have to take a look at the points.
smud6ie.
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Just an earth switch, so have disconnected and still nothing...
Will get to the points and see whats going on.
Thanks for the advice folks
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its alive....points cleaned up and jobs a good un. no low oil switch but did need a drop.
Too dark to finish the plot tho...
Cheers folks :)
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Sounds like a good title for a chick lit romance, published by Mills and Boon .... :blink:
So there really are romantic softies hiding over here in the shed ... :D