Taryl fixes all, is a very good small engine channel and he is also really good with the kerosene and oil fired heaters that some people call them salamander heaters for use in shops and garages but it works on a lot of different stuff besides that too and his channel is more of a comedy-based channel but the guy really knows what he's doing for sure and he is an actual business based in Indiana.... I have the same problem going on with a 26 HP Kohler twin cylinder right now and I have been digging out chunks of busted magnet pieces from under the flywheel but I have a 23 HP Kohler engine twin cylinder also and I'm going to see if I can use the flywheel off of it over on the 26 hp engine and if it works, then I'll buy another flywheel a little later on, to put back on the 23 HP engine and you're right those flywheels are expensive as hell, so that's why I'm going to try to see if I can make these two interchange before I have to spend that kind of money for a new one on eBay or Amazon....
The easiest way to see if they are opposite is to put them on top of each other. This thing with the magnet on the end doesn’t work very well. If you put into of the other and they line up even they are the same if you put them on top and they slide offset then they opposite. 2 part epoxy is the only way to glue back on.
Great video. Pretty sure they all came off and stuck like that is that once one let's go and magnetizes to the stator, it whacks the next one which comes off and hits the next, etc... like dominoes. I think when one lets go they all get wiped out and just move right onto the stator as they do..... ✌
Kohler engines could have been designed a lot better and I mean really using epoxy to put magnets on the inside of the flywheel is just a real cheap way for assembly and like my 26 HP Kohler engine where the voltage regulator bolts up to it underneath the plastic cover is a metal plate and the frame of the regulator grounds itself to that, so a ground wire isn't needed but it's right at the base of the left side head where a lot of heat is generated and that particular engine is notorious for heat damage to the voltage regulators but the wiring harnesses also are routed right over top of the cylinders where a lot of heat is also but they do that intentionally so problems occur and they can keep selling their product because most people today don't work on stuff because they have no idea how to or they're just basically too lazy to do it but I'm like you, when it comes to fixing something I can pretty well do it and save myself a lot of money in the long run by doing so
that's what happened to mine also, some of them come off and broke the magnets up too much to try to reuse them so I've got a spare engine on one of my spare John Deere mowers that I want to sacrifice the flywheel off of tomorrow and I hope it works cuz there's three HP difference in the engines but other than that everything looks to be identical both being Kohler 7000 series engines
@@samc.291 Hopefully that works for you. I ran mine without a charging system for a season. I seemed to be fine. I bought a solar panel charger but never installed it on the mower. Eventually sold the mower. The old timers tell me that Kohler is a good engine brand and I believe them regarding Kohlers from their time.
@@nicksnextproject535 I haven't tried the flywheel from the 23 HP yet but I think it'll work on the 26 HP that I have the problems with.... Apparently this engine has to have some sort of charging system, because when I remove the hot post from the battery the engine dies instantly.... I believe the old day Kohler engines are really good also and I believe those were considered the k-series that were normally painted red and they were used on a lot of the old cub lawn and garden tractors and the John Deere and 800 and 8000 series gravely riding mowers and gravely walk behind machines.... The Kohler engines that are the command and courage series are the ones, I try to stay away from
My friend bought a new flywheel as he said but i think he might have repainted it and lied but he's dumb enough to blow money like that so he might have anyhow i think he fucked something up in it under the flywheel or didn't do something right
