ORIGINAL: Ave8or
Sorry peter, took so long to reply, I laid the plug on the head and cranked it with my 12 V starter but still no spark.
What the heck is wrong?, the engine ran fine before the conversion, also I was told that this engine can be started with a standard starter, that must be wrong, I put the plug in and my starter won't hardly turn it over.
You mentioned the ground wire on the coil.
Normally, this is to shut it down by shorting the Pulse, generated by the magnet passing under the coil, to ground.
If I'm not mistaken, the opposite could be true, if the Iron core of the coil is not grounded, it might not make a spark.
Generaly, I've only see the Phateon (I think that's correct) coils on my Ryobi's. They all have a spade bayonet sticking out of the coil.
If you short that to ground, it wont spark.
Also, if you have an ohm meter, the coil should read 200-300 ohms from the iron to the bayonet. You will know the ground is good if you measure from the core to the head and it's 0 ohms.
Hope this helps,
Tom