Perhaps yours is possessed, like I occasionally wonder if mine is.
I was beating my head against one of my last issues, the actuator not kicking the target off the magnet when attempting to start. It would virtually never do so without flicking the start switch several times (turns out the SLA batteries the previous owner installed wouldn't crank it and kick the actuator). After work I go to check a couple things Kurt suggested, and decided to try starting it first just to make sure the symptom is still there before I go testing things, SOB fires up just fine like 5 times in a row... and then 3-10 seconds later shuts off with the no fuel light every time, despite the fact I'd just topped it up, if anything overfilled, the last time I messed with it.
I wish I could even tell you what did that, I took a break to look at the TM & try to figure out that, poked around a little in the tank with a paint stirrer to make sure it wasn't somehow actually empty & maybe free up the float... then the next time I tried, it was back to not kicking the target off the magnet, but would run without issue once I started it.
I was beating my head against one of my last issues, the actuator not kicking the target off the magnet when attempting to start. It would virtually never do so without flicking the start switch several times (turns out the SLA batteries the previous owner installed wouldn't crank it and kick the actuator). After work I go to check a couple things Kurt suggested, and decided to try starting it first just to make sure the symptom is still there before I go testing things, SOB fires up just fine like 5 times in a row... and then 3-10 seconds later shuts off with the no fuel light every time, despite the fact I'd just topped it up, if anything overfilled, the last time I messed with it.
I wish I could even tell you what did that, I took a break to look at the TM & try to figure out that, poked around a little in the tank with a paint stirrer to make sure it wasn't somehow actually empty & maybe free up the float... then the next time I tried, it was back to not kicking the target off the magnet, but would run without issue once I started it.