Toro Coil Destroyed

[lefty]

Toro Model:20383 SN:403246171
Engine Model:136-7855 SN:136785518010000279

It appears that the coil was rubbing against the flywheel and eventually caught destroying everything, including the stud that the coil mounts to on the engine. It's bent and cracked. Is there anything that can be done about this? My guess is she's a goner but I've never encountered this. I included some photos of the carnage.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BVk7ddGHxqsQRJ9c6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EbwD3kMnqZDqKCZv6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/AGZo1fkfmK21oi7D9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Mbqqag5bqJYai6E9A

Thank you

[bgsengine]

Nope. It's a pile of scrap. new engine, short block (and new coil, etc) or repower , any of which most likely will cost more than a new mower. Evidently something ferrous fell inside the blower housing (or some piece of tin broke off something somewhere) and flywheel magnet picked it up and slammed 'er into the coil. I have seen it a few times, usually after some other tech has worked on it (cough, cough) and left a point cover screw laying on top of the engine block.... or folks running it without the rotating screen (Tecumseh ECV and Sears Eager-1 were famous for the rotating screen spinning itself loose, then starting to hit stuff and make sparks, so it was removed) and something fell down into the flywheel fins... Oh the stories I could tell ya about careless techs leaving bolts, hardware, sockets laying on top of flywheel and forgetting them, buttoning up the engine and then the skid marks in the underdrawers when things go boom!

[lefty]

Thought that might be the case. Thank you. Sure glad I wasn't the last one in there.

[KE4AVB]

So when is the funeral?

I had a Honda like that but it was the top flywheel crankshaft bushing the failed. But the 21" blade was only 16" and there was no complaint of cutting problems.

[lefty]

So when is the funeral?

I had a Honda like that but it was the top flywheel crankshaft bushing the failed. But the 21" blade was only 16" and there was no complaint of cutting problems.

I still have to break the news to the next of kin.

[KE4AVB]

That will be about like me having to confirm to a customer he murdered his twin cylinder Kohler engine last week.

He had started an oil change but forgot to put oil back in the engine before used the mower. Both rods snapped and a large hole in the side of the block.