How To Test A Starter On A Lawn Mower. Remove your mowers old starter mower. It will have a red positive wire and a.
1 Check the battery charge level of your mower. If the mower starts the solenoid is bad and needs to be replaced. If the starter is good it will turn over.
Most of the lawn mower has the starter motor and the solenoid unit together.
Starter solenoids with three lugs use the mounting ears as a ground where as four-lugged solenoids use one of the small lugs as the solenoid ground. You can diagnose and test the starter motor with basic hand tools and depending on what you learn have it running in no time. A riding lawn mower that has a bad starter can be difficult to diagnose. You must have the model number of your mower with you.
