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Default Troy Bilt won't start

Oren wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:33:27 -0500, dpb wrote:

Oren wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:45:50 -0500, dpb wrote:

Start checking the shutoff ground
shunt isn't still on and work from there...
My mower doesn't have a shutoff ground. ...

Electric start? Key? Built into the throttle control not the old
manual "push against the plug" type? I've seen very few small (as in
10-12 hp or less that don't -- actually can't think of one that I have
seen that doesn't). Inquiring minds and all...


I have a lever handle that needs to held down for the engine to run.
When released the engine shuts off.

....

Oh, yeah, the new crap...

I'm fortunate to not have anything new enough to have required those.
If I did own one, it would have promptly been "fixed"...

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