The tractor cranks but it does not spark put a brand new coil pack on and it didn't help I have it sitting in my work bench.I hooked up a battery starter to it to see if it had spark but it doesn't all it does is crank.the coil tested good.last time it ran my kids blew the mwer deck off and ever sice then it won't start.it did blow the fuse though after that.and there was smoke that came out behind the flywheel and suggestions

Pull the plug, reattach the spark plug wire, ground the plug to the engine. Now turn your key does the engine turn over and do you see a spark at the plug tip. If so, what color is the spark

I did that and there is no spark I already tried that my husbandhas the motor out of the tractor sitting on the work bench he used a battery starter to crank and thees nothing

Sounds like the diodes going to the coils are blown.

Where are the diodes located

Under the engine blower housing they run to coil.

The kill wire on the coil could be grounding it out. If you unplug the small black wire from the coil does it spark then?

The black wire isn't hooked up. Is it near the alternator under the flywheel the diode.

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Originally Posted by jsfocke

The kill wire on the coil could be grounding it out. If you unplug the small black wire from the coil does it spark then?

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Please help still no luck the black wire isn't hooked up

If the black wire is unhooked from the bottom of the coil the only other things that should cause it not to spark is a bad coil, a coil that is not gapped properly or too much rust on the coil or flywheel.

Thecoil is new and we used a business card to gap the coil the flywheel we cleaned off

Well, you've got me...

The contacts on the flywheel and the coil are the only thing besides the coil itself that produce the spark. The little wire that plugs onto the coil is what shuts it down to kill the engine. If it is not even plugged onto the coil it can't be effecting it. You are sure that you have the coil mounted correctly? It can be mounted upside down... I assume that you are unplugging your spark plug and using a screwdriver or a spark detector to make sure that you have spark.. A bad spark plug could make it seem like the coil isn't working. If you are using it and grounding the tip to see if you have spark I think I would remove the plug and use the ol screwdriver method to be sure. If none of this produces a spark then I would say you just got a bad coil. Even if you had sheared a flywheel pin or something more serious you would still get spark. It would just be at the wrong time.

Did you get it fixed .

No it is not sparking what should the spark plugs be gapped at.I have them gapped at .30 is that right.

25 -30 is good
Do you have all the wires unhook from the coil.if so and no spark has to be a bad coil,

I am getting a very weak spark is that the coil it is a brand new one

Nothing pluged into the coil.

Make sure the wire is unpluged at the coil

The coll pack was bad it is running now

Good Job.