Hello all -
I picked up an abandoned snowblower with the HS50 Tecumseh 5hp engine and will be resurecting it as my back up and rental property blower. I have everything pretty well sorted out, but one question I have is in regards to the ignition key.
I know that the plastic key needs to be inserted to break the contact between the wire and the grounding metal base, but there is a wire coming off of the grounding base that was attached to the main adjustment jet on the bottom of the carb bowl. My other Tecumseh has that same wire, but it is not attached to the carb and I couldn't clearly see where it was attached on a quick look this morning.
Is this wire simply a ground and just needs to be attached to any metal on the machine to complete the circuit, or is there more to the story? Can it be bypassed in any way since the machine didn't have the plastic key and if it can be set up specifically so that I wouldn't need to buy a key, that would be great. Thanks for any insight you can provide.
I picked up an abandoned snowblower with the HS50 Tecumseh 5hp engine and will be resurecting it as my back up and rental property blower. I have everything pretty well sorted out, but one question I have is in regards to the ignition key.
I know that the plastic key needs to be inserted to break the contact between the wire and the grounding metal base, but there is a wire coming off of the grounding base that was attached to the main adjustment jet on the bottom of the carb bowl. My other Tecumseh has that same wire, but it is not attached to the carb and I couldn't clearly see where it was attached on a quick look this morning.
Is this wire simply a ground and just needs to be attached to any metal on the machine to complete the circuit, or is there more to the story? Can it be bypassed in any way since the machine didn't have the plastic key and if it can be set up specifically so that I wouldn't need to buy a key, that would be great. Thanks for any insight you can provide.