Well tried adjusting the carb like suggested on here.
Didn't work.
Took the saw to the local stihl dealership and they rebuilt the carb, tried firing it up in the parking lot before leaving. Wont idle now. Wasnt very impressed with the dealership, they simply said some saws they cant fix. Good thing I got a full refund for all the parts and work they put into it.
Fark,if they cant sort an 044 out ,they got no hope
The 044 is my most favored saw, trouble with dealership repair shops is they can`t or won`t take the time necessary to diagnose all the problems a saw might have. They make a guess at what is aling the saw and do one procedure like install a carb kit. Then its out the door, most shops don`t even have a test log to try the saw out in after its repaired so they kick it out to the owner to try it out.That is a sucky way to do work but it would cost that shop,-then they pass that on to the owner, so much next to no one would want to pay to have a full diagnosis done and repaired at that shop. We as home mechanics can spend countless hours playing with a saw and eventually end up with a perfectly running saw, just think what that would cost you paying the $66. per hour plus parts at a pro shop. Some saws have more than one problem by the time they come in the door of a repair shop, many times failing radial seals are masked by the carb being jacked up on the needle settings. First thing I try out after pulling the pullcord out 2-3 times slowly to get a feel for the internals is to take the screwdriver and check how many turns out the H&L needles are, that can give me a hint at what might be up with this particular saw. Most shops will just throw a kit in a carb or say it needs a new carb and the saw is returned to the owner working corerrectly or not.A good shop would also do a Vac Test but not any that I know of around here.
Some saws I have overhauled that looked like they had little hours of run time actually had 5-7 different issues that needed fixing to make them run correctly, those saws were left with me, the owners did not want to put that kind of money into them when they could buy a Walmart special for the same repair amount. I was just gived a 025 that the owner was fed up with it, low hours of use and it will only need the fuel system cleaned up, carb kit and has poor spark. It turned out after stripping it down, cleaning it up that it needed the air gap closed from about out at its maximum limit down to .010, a new spark plug, now has bright blue spark. A carb kit, fuel tank flushed out of all the sawdust and dirt in it, new filter that was mostly covered in varnish, new fuel pickup line that was gone soft and the airfilter washed and blown dry. This saw just sat around with gas in the tank for long periods of time, years sometimes at a streatch. It was never serviced, never had the airfilter off and was always hard to get started from day one so the owner was just fed up with it, I wonder why?
