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Hard starting chain saw.
Cutiegirlracing
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I have a very hard starting Husqvarna. When it's running it kick butt, so much better than my old one(still at the bottom of a very big lake [:(!])
It gets a good spark and fuel, but just has to be pulled about 2000 times before it starts. I think it doesn't have fuel in the carb at the begining.
Latily I've been putting starter fuel in the motor then it starts, but still takes a few hundred pulls.
Any ideas on what I may need to do with it? It's a 52 cc 2 stroke.
Thanks
It gets a good spark and fuel, but just has to be pulled about 2000 times before it starts. I think it doesn't have fuel in the carb at the begining.
Latily I've been putting starter fuel in the motor then it starts, but still takes a few hundred pulls.
Any ideas on what I may need to do with it? It's a 52 cc 2 stroke.
Thanks
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Sounds like it may need some new gasket in the carb. It should not be letting the fuel back into the fuel tank.
How much has it been used? I might not hurt just to have the whole carb rebuilt.
Most 2 strokes are very finnicky like this though.
I was cutting wood with a couple guys yesterday, so I would have them pull start it for me. But today I'm on my own and I'm sore, from falling down a hill side yesterday too.
I was thinking carb rebuild. It's an older one, but I went though it new plug, air filter and cleaned the spark arrestor. I my dump the fuel and start new.
I was cutting wood with a couple guys yesterday, so I would have them pull start it for me. But today I'm on my own and I'm sore, from falling down a hill side yesterday too.
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Id start it for you, if I were there [:D]
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I tried something different today. I pumped the gas a few times before I started it and it would start within 4 to 5 pulls. I never used the compression release. Then after I shut it off, I would rev it hard for a few seconds and shut it off at full throttle.
Thanks for everyone's help. With any luck it won't act up any more.
200????
20??
I run multiple of both husq and sthil only once have i had problem similar to yours and it was with a stihl.
if you can pull it apart and put it together yourself then break the thing down! and clean it,
you might even just have some thread stuck in there i had that one time, .
if you cant, take it to your local shop and get them to do it, i bet its something easy and simple...
both husq and stihl are great, work horses, I used to run my hq for the rpm, and the stihl for the torq, but now days they run side by side.
comparing the two are like comparing a new ford and a new chevy.
JMHO...
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call Husqvarna, ask them what the compression is supposed to be. could be a bad piston/piston ring/piston housing or all three. A compression tester is not expensive, probably get one under 10$
As to starting, have always used the "choke" method (choke on full, pull till it pops, choke on halfway and give it some throttle. Starts right up)on starting two strokes and it works well. Once had a customer with an outboard on a ski boat who kept coming back with a complaint about hard starting. Finally took him to the test tank and showed him where the choke lever was, no more starting problems.[;)]
Another mistake I have seen owners do is buy the cheapest oil they can find. This leads to problems with carbon in the exhaust system. One outboard I worked on had the exhaust tube so plugged up we had to chisel the carbon out before it would run. Buy only manufacturers brand oil (Husqvarna, Stihl, etc) for best results. Some synthetics work very well also but they also cost quite a bit more. The other benefit to manufacturers brand oils is that most of them have fuel stabilizer already in the mix. Keeps the gas fresher longer but the 30 day rule mentioned above is a good one.