The carb kit came in the mail today and was installed. I wasn't able to get the saw into any wood but I do not believe it fixed the tuning issue. Here is what happened.
I installed the kit and went outside to pull the cord. About pull #4 it fired with choke. I pushed in the choke and on pull 5 it fired right up on fast idle. Knocked the fast idle off and it died. I checked the L, and it was 1 turn out. I moved it to 1.5 turns out and tried again. Now it idled. I let it sit a few minutes and warm up.
I then reved it up. The saw farted a nice long 4 stroking grunt. I turned the H in a tiny bit and tired again. It was on the verge of 2 stoking so I put it back where it was. I said good enough until it gets into wood, back to the L.
I let the saw idle and it died. Tried a few more times, it runs but only when I give it a little throttle, so I turned up the idle screw to keep it running. Now I start slowing turning the L out to see if it needs more fuel, dies. Ok. start it back up, turn it in slowly until it speeds up to max rpm. I end up putting it about 1.25 turns out. The idle is still "inconsistent." Sometimes when I rev up the saw and go to idle it is idling well enough to keep the chain spinning, remember i kicked up the idle speed, and sometimes it goes back to idle and wants to die or runs slowly.
What is next? fuel lines? I tried to open the gas gap to listen for venting, I didn't hear anything and it ran the same after being opened. I have not checked compression, any chance the engine is just worn out? My next post will be a photo of the saw all cleaned up.