Haywire Haywood
Fiscal Conservative Social Retard
I put a carb kit in while I was waiting on the pin so I hope that doesn't give me problems. I've never done that before and I just put the metering lever in as it came out of the package. It looked about like the one that came out as far as angle and such. One thing that was strange was that the needle that came out had a rubber-like tip and the new one was all metal. I put a kit in that freebie Shinny 500 this week and it's needle had a rubber tip too.
I started to, but I think it has carb problems. No power and it's spitting a lot of gas back onto the air filter. I have a wet spot the size of a silver dollar on the felt. I need to go back into the carb and see if the metering lever is out of whack. I did a search (hurray for me!) and found a nice diagram on how to adjust the lever. I put the 372 (gulp!) on the mill with the 28" bar and a loop of 3/8 full skip semi-chisel. That made better time than the 041 with LP ripping chain.
Couple of quotes from other threads for a bit of background.
Well, carb problems have come to pass it would appear. I did a search and Lake said that spitback was sometimes due to worn piston skirts... this is a NOS piston and cylinder so that rules that out. I checked the metering lever this morning and it's level as a diagram I found on a search showed. I fished the rubber tipped metering needle out of the trash and will put that back in later today to see if that cures an unknown needle-seat seal problem.
Is there anything else I should look at while I'm in there?
thanks,
Ian