My machine is a GC2300 (yr:2005 700+ hours). Recently it has developed a problem that it will not start. When you turn the ignition key on, I hear a light clicking noise which is hard to detect exactly where the noise is comming from. The engine does not crank and the starter does not appear to being doing anything.
After releasing the key I then hear a louder single click as if somthing is realeasing or shutting, sometimes there is a delay before I hear this click.
The battery indicator is pure green, the voltage across battery was 14 volts +/- and I also had a charger on it (12v set at both 2 amps & 6 amps) for a few hours on & off just in case to see if that would help. I measure the voltage at the glow plug bus bar at approximately 14 volts with the glow plug switch in position.
The voltage at the starter solinode was the same as the battery voltage and seem to drop about .4 volts when I turn on the ignition switch.
Of course this goes and happens just when I need to do my first mowing of the season.. By the way this happened back in October and I played with it for several weeks on and off and could not get to the root of the problem. Then one day in late November i just turned the key (first to glow of course) and sure enough it started and did not give me a problem for the next two weeks. So I put it in the garage and it sat this whole winter idle since we had no snow to speak of this winter (very strange for Poughkeepsie, NY) to use my puppy.
Would appreciate some good suggestions..
After releasing the key I then hear a louder single click as if somthing is realeasing or shutting, sometimes there is a delay before I hear this click.
The battery indicator is pure green, the voltage across battery was 14 volts +/- and I also had a charger on it (12v set at both 2 amps & 6 amps) for a few hours on & off just in case to see if that would help. I measure the voltage at the glow plug bus bar at approximately 14 volts with the glow plug switch in position.
The voltage at the starter solinode was the same as the battery voltage and seem to drop about .4 volts when I turn on the ignition switch.
Of course this goes and happens just when I need to do my first mowing of the season.. By the way this happened back in October and I played with it for several weeks on and off and could not get to the root of the problem. Then one day in late November i just turned the key (first to glow of course) and sure enough it started and did not give me a problem for the next two weeks. So I put it in the garage and it sat this whole winter idle since we had no snow to speak of this winter (very strange for Poughkeepsie, NY) to use my puppy.
Would appreciate some good suggestions..