I have a 2004 scag 48 walkbehind that has a 17hp Kawasaki recoil start engine. Is there any way that I can convert it to electric?
converting recoil start to electric start
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I have a 2004 scag 48 walkbehind that has a 17hp Kawasaki recoil start engine. Is there any way that I can convert it to electric?
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Yea, it's not a cheap nor easy ordeal...
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I have to believe pulling the rope is a whole lot easier than converting.
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ok i was just throwing the idea around. i guess instead i will just live with it till it needs to be replaced.
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Check on Ebay there is al lot ok kits avaible, between the kit an a bettery th cost should be around 150$ not bad. However if you have to replace the flywheel its probably not worth it
The flywheel is one of the main ingredients. That's what the starter engages on to turn the engine over.
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Perhaps your right, I have a giant vac brush mower with a 13hp hond and also a 36" ferris mower 13hp kawasaki that I looked into converting to electric start and if I rembemer correctly the cost would have been around 150$ each. I also toink you can keep the rope starter connected after the conversion.
Funny thing is I had to purchase a whole rope starter rof the kawasaki and it was over 100$.
For regular use electric starter is 10x better than a rope. Having both on the same engine would be nice
And when you replace it do youself a real big favor and get a recoil and skip the auto starter. The darn kaw are so easy to start and the auto starters are just problem after problem.
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They usually start on the first to second pull.
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