SawTroll
Information Collector
Brad, Sawtroll, I'm surprize at both of ya. I would request you go take the air filter off your 361 and pull it all the way down in the choke position. Look at the choke flap, it will be fully closed. Come up one notch on the lever and watch the flap. It will open but not all the way. Now pull the trigger while watching the flap, it will then and only then open fully. Thats why we dealers call the first notch up on the lever half choke fast idle. True on most all Stihl's the choke flap opens fully once you raise the lever up one notch from choke. The 361 is one that does not, it does indeed have a half choke position. Thats why the 361 will load up on fuel and smoke in fast idle position. You have to get it off that position sooner than most Stihls. The 441 is the sameway, it too has a half choke position that doesn't open fully until the saw is in the idle position. The 441 choke flap barely opens at all on the fast idle position. Both the 361 and 441 will load up on fuel in the fast idle position because both are in half choke, though the 441 is close to being in the full choke even at one notch up. We at the shops just call that one notch up half choke fast idle to make it easy for everyone to understand.
Sorry, thought it was like most other saws in that respect - with a streight fast idle......:greenchainsaw:
I never had any reason to look into it.