well,i gave up. took it to the shop. i told the guy that it was hard to start after it was run for a while and when i got it started as i would go to put it in gear it woud die. now it would only do that when it was warm. not the first start.on the firt start of the day it woud run like is bran new until i shut it down then it would be hard to start but once i got it running again it was ok. anyway the the guy at the shop took off the cover and said the ststor was going bad and that was going to be the problem.how does that sound to you guys?