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My 312-8 has not run in a month and a half. Lawn looks like crap, but with first frost possible this week, I don't really care. It won't turn over at all. Any time I turn the key to Start, the inline fuse from the start wire to the solenoid pops. We got it to run briefly last week, but once the PTO was engaged (bypassed seat switch, that was original culprit), it cut out. Restarted, hit the PTO again, dead. Attempted a third restart, right back to popping that fuse. Pushed it back in the garage, realized I ran over dog crap (how fitting), pushed it out and hosed the tire off, pushed it back into the garage AGAIN, and haven't looked at this piece of crap since. It has successfully completed a full yard job ONCE all summer. Meantime my dad's "box store" 20 year old Craftsman only failed to start once in the 8 years he has had it, and only due to a battery dead of old age. I'm about to give up. My father in law wants to keep trying things, he thinks the issue is in the starter...I can make a case for PTO switches, but I'm into it for $600, and I'm not willing to put more into it at this point. Any ideas?
