no fire

hi guys, i went to fire up my new 260 & no go, no fire. i was playing around in there, i put an offset timing key in. i took it all back apart to make sure every thing was ok. how do i test the coils? your help would be great. thanks

There was some good info here concerning the problems but they have disappeared and i didn't make a hard copy. Ed

Daren,

I take it there is a Champion plug on there... if you have a spare try that first. Check with my brother I think he should have a few spares...try to get some NGK if you can. Also adjust pickup coil gap with a business card, or pull it up as far as it will go and set it there...make sure it's not touching the flywheel. Also, if you are using anodized mounts or any mounts with coil relocating bracket try running a ground wire from the pickup coil ... you will see one of the screw holes has a metal insert ...run the wire from that screw to engine case. Let me know if any of this helps.

As for the coil testing information (and some other great stuff) that disappeared from the boards here, that is MY fault I messed up when pruning the forums and lost alot of good stuff...Sorry guys. I will try to get some of it back on here...whatever I can... alot of the stuff was from Scott and others... again I apologize.

hi marc, we found the problem, i checked everything you said & once i added the ground wire from the coil we got fire. i guess the system will not ground through the anodizing. going to bolt that engine back in & hopefully test drive today. thanks again

Good stuff!