I'm having what I'm thinking is a no-spark issue with my new to me duraforce powered lawnboy. It will either start on the first pull or not at all. Usually when it doesn't start I just put it back and try the next day but if I grouse and bang it will sometimes fire eventually and blow blue smoke which makes me pretty sure it's not a fuel issue.
I took the cowl off today and realised that whoever had the coil off last didn't gap it at all. I gapped it to spec but that didn't change anything. The spark plug is brand new and correctly gapped. I probed from the spark lead to the base of the plug (plug lead off the plug so the circuit is through the plug wire, coil, coil grounds, block and back to the plug base) and got 1200 Ohms. I also made sure the shorting wire is opening with the bail and it is.
Does that 1200 ohm reading sound okay?
Is there any other diagnostics I can do without throwing parts at it?
I took the cowl off today and realised that whoever had the coil off last didn't gap it at all. I gapped it to spec but that didn't change anything. The spark plug is brand new and correctly gapped. I probed from the spark lead to the base of the plug (plug lead off the plug so the circuit is through the plug wire, coil, coil grounds, block and back to the plug base) and got 1200 Ohms. I also made sure the shorting wire is opening with the bail and it is.
Does that 1200 ohm reading sound okay?
Is there any other diagnostics I can do without throwing parts at it?