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There's a magnet on the engine's flywheel.
It is not recommended to test the strength of a flywheel magnet with a screwdriver as the force exerted by the magnet could cause the screwdriver to snap towards it, potentially causing injury. It's safer to use an appropriate tool or magnet gauge to measure the strength of the magnet.
Yamaha doesn't use points. There's a magnet on the flywheel and a coil mounted next to the flywheel. When the magnet passes the coil, the spark is triggered.
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mercury
place the magnet on the flywheel in front of magneto and place a buisness card between flywheel and magneto and tighten magneto down.......remove buisness card..
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It is a magneto, a little piece under the flywheel cowl with two metal tabs that almost touch the side of the flywheel. Embedded in the flywheel is a magnet that provides a signal to the magneto each time it comes around to fire the spark plug.
A stator. A magnet that rotates with the crank shaft
You can check the Briggs and Stratton website for the exact specs for you engine number. OR Most people use a standard business card between the flywheel and coil. That works fine. Just line up the coil flanges with the magnet part of the flywheel and the put the business card between them. The magnet will hold it in place. Then tighten the bolts holding the coil and you are ready to go.
Mercury, although it does posses some interesting physical and chemical properties, should not be attracted to a magnet. It is considered to be diamagnetic, which means it would actually oppose a magnetic field and repel. If you have more questions on mercury or diamagnetism.
take magneto off and use fine sandpaper or emory board and knock off surface rust on edge that contacts flywheel........when replacing turn flywheel to where magnet is in front of magneto and place buisness card between flywheel and magneto and tighten down ...remove buisness card......