How to Wire a Huskee 12 HP Riding Mower

Park and turn off your Huskee riding mower, allowing your engine several minutes to cool. Open the front hood to reveal the machine's Briggs & Stratton engine.

Find the spark plug on the right side of the Briggs & Stratton engine. Check that the thin, black ignition system wire is connected to the spark plug. Reinsert the wire into the rear of the spark plug if necessary.

Locate the distinctive, black, rectangular battery with its bolts and red and black terminal wires. The battery has a red (positive) terminal wire extending out of its left side, and a black (negative) terminal wire extending out of the right side. Follow the red terminal wire back to the starter solenoid, where it must be connected to a bolt on the solenoid's right side. Fasten the open, looped end of the terminal wire back onto the solenoid's side bolt if necessary, then tighten it by cranking the bolt clockwise with a socket wrench.

Ensure the black wire on the left side of the Huskee riding mower's solenoid is connected to the side bolt. This is the wire that connects to the starter mower, and if it is not in place, the machine won't start. Loop its end over the side bolt as you did with the red terminal wire, and tighten it into place in the same fashion using the socket wrench.

Find the Huskee's flywheel, a large, iron circular part that lies perched and bolted to the top of the engine block. Remove the iron cover that sits on top of the flywheel by taking the bolts out with your socket wrench.

Check the right side of the exposed Huskee flywheel, where a flap is located. This flap is the engine's governor flap and it is connected to a bolt just beneath it via its wire. Ensure this wire is looped and connected onto the bolt, then tighten the bolt to secure the wire using your socket wrench.