assuming you have an ignition resistor on it, by pass it next time you try to start it, appearing to start but dying as soon as you release the starter is exactly what a fried resistor would cause

Bill

Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
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