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Quite a way to introduse yourself to the forum. Welcome anyway.

The problem is that the muffler makes the saw so quiet that your missing the pop when it's on choke and you're flooding it. A muffler mod will take care of that as well as give you quite a bit more power.
 
Quite a way to introduse yourself to the forum. Welcome anyway.

The problem is that the muffler makes the saw so quiet that your missing the pop when it's on choke and you're flooding it. A muffler mod will take care of that as well as give you quite a bit more power.

What he said. 3-4 pulls on full choke then click the lever up. It should start pretty quick from there. Mine usually takes a little longer to start up because I drain the fuel and I don't use it that much. It takes a minute for it to get going but once its warmed up its fine.
 
Quite a way to introduse yourself to the forum. Welcome anyway.

The problem is that the muffler makes the saw so quiet that your missing the pop when it's on choke and you're flooding it. A muffler mod will take care of that as well as give you quite a bit more power.

Yep. Also if you use the decomp valve, it will close back up on the 'pop' brad is talking about. Once it pops, bring the switch up one position, do not keep pulling.
 
That's about the same percentage that I get up here. Ain't that a coincidence!

Doesn't surprize me at all Spike. I bet I get at least a 100 flooded saws come in every year with the owner raising hell there's something wrong with that dayummm thing. Easiest way to catch em is look to see if the choke is still on when they bring it in. If it is the fun begins right there...
 
Yep their all that way, piece of :censored:, but me be'n the nice guy that I am I'll give ya a hundred for that POS and take it off your hands. That ought to be enough to get you wildthingy.









(Hooneeeyyy....... can you go get me my little screwdriver)
 
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lol you aint got the saw going but she for sure has you


Hey, you would better be careful with that.

361's tend to have a strong character.
Saw is only showing you that it doesnt want to work for you.

Saw one once becoming p!ssed off and drop starting her owner....












seriously, never had a problem with mine
 
lol you aint got the saw going but she for sure has you


Hey, you would better be careful with that.

361's tend to have a strong character.
Saw is only showing you that it doesnt want to work for you.

Saw one once becoming p!ssed off and drop starting her owner....



seriously, never had a problem with mine

:hmm3grin2orange: That would be something to see........
 
Doesn't surprize me at all Spike. I bet I get at least a 100 flooded saws come in every year with the owner raising hell there's something wrong with that dayummm thing. Easiest way to catch em is look to see if the choke is still on when they bring it in. If it is the fun begins right there...

Yup, and sometimes the muffler is still wet with fuel. Part of this is that people can't hear the saw pop because they have their ear protection on before they start it. Also, an awful lot of people choke a warm saw. Some of it is because they are dummies, but some of it is due to the on/off controls on some of the saws. Sometimes people inadvertently go past "on" to "choke".
 
HAHA I must be a DIPSH*T, but I'v had the saw for like 4 years and never had this problem. New plug, fuel lin, and rebuilt the carb. :angry:
 
Do a pressure/vac test on the saw. Then you'll know if your problem has anything to do with the carb...

What symptoms led you to rebuild the carb in the first place?
 
What he said. 3-4 pulls on full choke then click the lever up. It should start pretty quick from there. Mine usually takes a little longer to start up because I drain the fuel and I don't use it that much. It takes a minute for it to get going but once its warmed up its fine.

:yourock: :agree2:
 
Do a pressure/vac test on the saw. Then you'll know if your problem has anything to do with the carb...

What symptoms led you to rebuild the carb in the first place?

For real...my 044 is 14 years old and never had the carb rebuilt.
 
Thought I would'nt get my 2 cents in

ms361 character can be molded.

What I did like about the 361 is its starting effort.

Just look at the 361 and think time for work, the dam thing starts all by itself.

and if your not careful it will jump in the truck before you get your boots on.

JKTGD2WTDO the saw and you'll be OK

If you don't know what your doing keep your hands off, you'll pizz it off and it will never run again.

I hate my MS361 but Saturday I found the thing in the front seat of my truck rev-in to go, G-dam thing was drooling all over the place with excitement.

:help: Me Im a sik man
 
Do a pressure/vac test on the saw. Then you'll know if your problem has anything to do with the carb...

What symptoms led you to rebuild the carb in the first place?[/QUOTE


This is what the saw shop thought it could be. One of the diaphragms had a slight wrinkle in it, so they rebuilt it. The original problem was I would start cutn and it would act like it was running out of gas and stall out. But it would start wright back up again. Worked fine after the rebuild know its doing it again. I think the shop I go to is a POS.
 
Do a pressure/vac test on the saw. Then you'll know if your problem has anything to do with the carb...

What symptoms led you to rebuild the carb in the first place?[/QUOTE


This is what the saw shop thought it could be. One of the diaphragms had a slight wrinkle in it, so they rebuilt it. The original problem was I would start cutn and it would act like it was running out of gas and stall out. But it would start wright back up again. Worked fine after the rebuild know its doing it again. I think the shop I go to is a POS.


JKTGD2WTDO the saw and you'll be OK
Just Keep the G-D 2 week trained dealer off the saw and you'll be OK
 

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