Michael M
I am having the same problim with my craftsman lawn tracter as well the model # is 917.255919. I even went a took out all the wiering to see if any of that was bad but no luck. So I hope you and I can get an answer. I was told it was the diodes. So you might want to try that i would if i new where to look or what I was looking for.
Robert R., November 2005