Well it didn't happen yet, but a neighbor brought over her 2003
Troybilt 8526 so I could see why it stalls after running for 5
minutes. Pulled off plastic cover shroud to work on the carb.
Noticed that the plastic shroud was molded with (3) bosses for
retention with extended head bolt studs, but only (2) head bolts were
headed with studs. Why you may ask??, well at some point the mfr
added an 120V electric start option and the standard Tecumseh starter
switch/receptacle combo has the cord leaving the housing directly over
a head bolt, leaving no room for a "stud" headed capscrew for the
third boss. Only problem is the plastic boss is still molded into the
cover and when bolted down with the two remaining head studs, it
tightly pinches the 120V cable going to the starter against a hot
cylinder head capscrew. Only easy fix I see is to trim the cover boss
to clear the 120V cable as it exits the starter switch. If you have
one of these take a look before you get zapped or at least use a GFI
outlet. Think I'll email a photo to Troybilt/MTD. By the way the
carb is a typical post '97 EPAised non-adjustable piece of crap. How
can an engine that's missfiring because it's so lean make less
emissions than a correctly adjusted carb??