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Hello All, Thank you for all the kind and informative responses. My neighbor was very helpful in aiding me withy this endeavor as well. Turns out the interlock system was just fine. The culprit turned out to be a very dirty carb. The bottom of the bowkl had lots of shellac in it from...

Excellent. Will give this a try and keep my fingers crossed. I am assum,ing, correct me if I am wrong, that this skinny black wire is what the mowers interlock uses to prevent the mower from starting if one of the switches is awry. Correct? Thank you again.

Ok. I am grateful. Thank you for the help. Sorry for the newb question but how do I get to that black wire on the coil. Remove the top engine cover with the recoil mech? Thank you

By the way, after this happened, I wheeled the machine into the garage and kept trying to understand what was happening. I swear that I got it restarted by jiggling around the shift lever. Maybe there is an interlock on there that might be failing. Anyway, ran again for about twenty minutes and...

Hello Maybe I misspoke. I should have said the engine will, after it stops running, and you attempt to restart, sometimes will not restart at all and other times I will get two fires out of her. Just seems like there is something going on with the interrupt circuit. Is there a way to bypass that...

Hello I am not sure but the starter will work and the engine will turn over about twice before it stops. Oil level is good by the way. Again feel strongly that there is some type of safety switch failing that causes the engine to not want to stay running. Thank you

Hello All, New here. Trying to resolve an issue with a used Snapper that I just purchased. Machine was working fine and then all of a sudden the engine quit. Briefly: good spark, good fuel and flow to carb, clean air filter. Dont think I have an engine issue, rather some kind of...