Recent content by Joshborosewicz

Thank you all for your replies, it dawned on my after hooking up the new switch I never actually installed it in the metal housing and let it hang down, I didn’t even consider that the ignition switch might need to be on bare metal to ground. Long story short I installed it properly, and it now...

I feel this must be a simple issue,

Ok so I take the green ground and touch it to bare metal and the engine dies. Whats that a symptom of? At this point I don’t think it’s the ignition switch, how does the key ground the engine? Does the ignition switch housing ground it?

It’s possible the water did, I was being careful when washing it, I have not tried a meter yet, that will be my next course of action

That’s good to know, do you have any ideas why the engine isn’t grounding when the key is turned to off?

Hello everyone, I have a Troy bilt horse pto with the Kohler magnum 8 and electric start. Recently after washing it I noticed that it starts up fine, but when the key is turned to the off position the engine does not shut off. I bought a replacement ignition switch with the correct 3 poles and...