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This is on an MTD Yard Machine Riding mower. Mdl 760. B&S Engine is 282H07-0334-E1 with a Nikki carburetor. It dies after the engine gets good and warmed up. It is still getting spark as the engine is winding down so I believe it is fuel related. It has the fuel shutoff solenoid screwed into...

Try rotating the engine crankshaft backward by hand (by the screen above the flywheel) until it just gets to the compression. Then use your electric starter normally. It might give the starter enough umph to over come the problem. Let us know. Good luck.

Try this workaround. Turn the engine crankshaft backward till it turns hard because of compression, then use electric starter normally. Nature of the beast on some engines. Good luck