maybe heat related for your relay? unrelated to this but I have a BCS rototiller which is Italian made, always gave me trouble starting, always a dead battery, slow starting etc. It had an electronic relay/solenoid, I picked up a Ford style solenoid and never gives me a problem since. Use it in the spring, park it,use it in the fall and park it again till next spring. NO dead battery, NO slow lazy starting, just tickle it, little choke, bam its running.
