blue_tractor_man
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Not exactly tractor related, but I have just aquired (not running, but "running when parked") Kohler 6.5 KW generator, circa 1965, with an L600 engine and a Fairbanks Morse X4B44B magneto. It is a 4 cylinder engine, so this magneto has a rotor and distributor cap. I get no spark out to the terminals where the spark plug wires connect, but if I take the cap off the mag and hook a jumper wire up to the little flat spring metal tab the thing puts out blue sparks. I have checked the continuity of the rotor, the little spring center pin and the cap. All check good. Is it possible that after 60 years something is weak and will not jump the rotor gap?