Thanks for the replies guys! Some great ideas here! I"ll try to answer everything I saw up till today here:
First - The click is happening not at the solenoid, but rather somewhere seemingly in the centre of the engine itself. Sounds most like it is near the fuel line/filter. Definitely not at the starter though.
Second - thanks to your responses, you tweaked me to something. The safeties. All seemed ok and disengaged. All connections looked clean. However when the engine was cranking when bypassing the solenoid, I had to have the seat up and didnt push the clutch pedal in. I disconnected the seat safety just to start it and engaged the clutch/brake lock. The missing part of the equation for me was that the key needed to be in the ON position. After that I did manage to start and mow last night, but if I had to stop the mower I had to bypass the solenoid each time to start it again. A ROYAL pain! No way I can get my kid to do the job like that :)
Some ideas left that you guys had that I havent tried/explored yet yet:
1. Possible bad solenoid. Think I should just exchange it and see?
2. Ignition switch - how could I test that? I would put my skill level at this stuff as beginner but not newbe.
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