Questions & Answers for: starts dies brake disengaged

My Craftsman 42" 18.5hp lawn tractor will start fine but when I disengage the brake or engage the blades it cuts off. It was recently left out in the rain while I was working, did something short out?

starts fine but when you go to engage the blade or go forward or backward or release the parking brake it will die unless you disengage the blade or push the brake back in. The odd thing is, every now

dies when I put on my brakes I replaced every part of th clutch 6 months ago engine dying when the foot is on the brakes indicates a faulty brake booster loosing vacuum The throw out bearing will have

...starts fine and stalls as soon as I disengage brake Sounds like the seat switch is not reading you are in the seat. Without a wiring diagram, it is difficult to say exactly. On most Zero turn mowers, ...

Why does it die when blades engaged or brake released? I can start it fine, but when I engage the blades, or disengage the brake it dies, it happens when I do either one seat kill safety switch faulty

...starts but when brake lever disengaged engine dies. both arms are out. the brake lever switch and both arm switches check out good with a meter. any ideas? What is year--make--model? Not much load on ...

Starts fine but dies when pressing accelerator. Brake is disengaged. Is this a fuse problem or interlock? How do I test? if could not get into gear interlock could be problem but sounds more like fuel

...starts but now every time I try to disengage the brakes or the handles. It dies One time the mower was running and shut down and restarted the motor and as soon as I touch any controls it dies check ...

...dies when either arm engaged but mower blades run without issue I have a 2 year old MZ48 - had worked fine all season until this week. Cranks fine, disengage park break and try to engage either Left ...

...starts and my hours meter is not lit up but when I disengage parking break it dies,, if I move the arms it dies and if I engage PTO it dies, can anyone help? t sounds like there may be an issue with ...