engine wont shut off, i really need help!

minibikekid16 · 08-30-2008, 06:57 PM

I have a recetly new 6.5 clone harbor freight, and IT WONT SHUT OFF!!!

I took it 2 diff engine repair shops and they tryed rigging a different shut off switch and it still wont shut off.

I shut it off my grabing the spark plug chord and yankin it off.

HOW CAN I FIX THIS hahahahaIN THING I AM SOO PISSED WITH IT.

Please help

can anyone think whats wrong and how i can fix it safly

PS. sorry for my french.

Liam
psl help

**GTO** · 08-30-2008, 07:05 PM

Strange that two mower shops couldn't figure it out.

Sounds like your ignition is whacked.

At worst you could hook up a bar to your spark plug like old school.

**oldsledz** · 08-30-2008, 07:34 PM

I think kill switch is just a ground it makes a dead short so you have no spark. all it can be is a bad switch , bad wire or bad connection.

**den35** · 08-30-2008, 11:45 PM

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say the wire is soft broken,possibly behind the shroud or flywheel,close to the coil.(since two shops already looked at it.Did they pull the shroud and flywheel off?)

I call it a soft break when the metal wire breaks but the outer casing is undamaged.

minibikekid16 · 08-31-2008, 02:05 AM

they just took off all the wirering and blew it with air and put it back and tryed it different ways. the repari man says its cause its a cheap ass chineses engine. how can i fix this?

**GTO** · 08-31-2008, 03:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by minibikekid16

they just took off all the wirering and blew it with air and put it back and tryed it different ways. the repari man says its cause its a cheap ass chineses engine. how can i fix this?

Thats all they did?

They didn't test for shorts?

No wonder people buy so many clones.

**jimh** · 08-31-2008, 06:31 AM

Pull you cover off and find the wire from the coil to ths switch. Remove it and plug on a new wire long enough to run out through the cover a few inches. Like oldsledz said, the kill wire just dead shorts the coil to kill the engine. Strip about 1/4 inch of the end of the wire. Start your engine. If you stick the bare end of the wire against the block or a motor bolt or something like that, the engine should die. If it does, your problem was with the switch or wire. If it doesn't, the coil has a break somewhere inside.

dave dickson · 08-31-2008, 08:09 AM

You should of told the repair man to go back to lawn mower school, the CHINA INVASION is here to stay!!!, I sure hope you didn't have to pay him for his advise, I'd of demanded MORE BANG for my buck, or in your case LESS BANG !!! lol, geeze that's a no brainer, and I'm sure JIM's remedy will get you stopping, lol, SLEDZ, GTO, DEN, all called it right, let us know how you fixed it though!
dave

**oldsledz** · 08-31-2008, 12:14 PM

I don't think many shops are going to do much work on the clone engines.
you can buy a new clone for 100.00 that makes it hard for them to charge 40.00 or more per hour to work on them.
Also they don't like to work on things that they think will brake down again soon it gives them a bad name even if it's not their fault.

minibikekid16 · 09-01-2008, 02:41 AM

hahaha yes lawnmoror school. and no it was free. lol

where do i find this wire?? can someone post a pic of it please??