newmexico
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So, I got one finally. Excited I put the bar and chain on it and started it up- Took awhile to get it started, but hey, new saw there might not be fuel in the lines.
Got it started and--it won't get up to RPM.
It idles and starts ok, but when the throttle is applied it bogs down. Hey, it's an auto tune I assume- it's just getting itself figured out is what I'm thinking. I can nurse it up to rpm, and cut some little wood. sometimes it takes playing with the choke to get it to rev up but I can do it and proceed to go through a tank of gas. I can take the filter off and see that it's spewing excess gas out the back of the carb, can get it to rev sometimes by limiting the air that goes into the secondary intake. (it has two intakes under the filter one that the choke lever operates the butterfly valve, the other that the throttle actuates.)
Well it still hasn't learned anything, persistent problem out of the box is that it flat out won't run right... I tried Huskvarna's toll free customer support number and the rep told me to take it to the dealer in town. I take it there and they say we don't really deal in Husky stuff and don't have the equipment to hook it up for diagnostics. I'm not going to drive two hours to the place where there might or might not be a dealer with the equipment.
I tried contacting Huskvarna through their website (no response yet two days later) of course though, the one site that allowed me to enter information was the Huskvarna Indonesia website.
I think it's a carburetor/ computer autotune module issue and would love to just bolt a replacement on to see if that's it.
Actually, I just want to send the whole saw back for a new one.
I guess I'll try contacting the site sponsor who I got it from to see if thay can do anything but really don't like that route as they are not responsible for a saw from huskvarna that doesn't run.
Here is a video of the saw in non-action
anyone have any suggestions on how to get hold of someone at husqvarna that might actually give a hoot that one of their new saws is basically what I would consider a 'lemon' and that might want to know that there is a potentially huge problem. I know that if more of these saws have this problem a lot of folks are going to stay with Stihl for their top handle saws (or switch from Husky to either Stihl or another manufacturer.
Rant over
Got it started and--it won't get up to RPM.
It idles and starts ok, but when the throttle is applied it bogs down. Hey, it's an auto tune I assume- it's just getting itself figured out is what I'm thinking. I can nurse it up to rpm, and cut some little wood. sometimes it takes playing with the choke to get it to rev up but I can do it and proceed to go through a tank of gas. I can take the filter off and see that it's spewing excess gas out the back of the carb, can get it to rev sometimes by limiting the air that goes into the secondary intake. (it has two intakes under the filter one that the choke lever operates the butterfly valve, the other that the throttle actuates.)
Well it still hasn't learned anything, persistent problem out of the box is that it flat out won't run right... I tried Huskvarna's toll free customer support number and the rep told me to take it to the dealer in town. I take it there and they say we don't really deal in Husky stuff and don't have the equipment to hook it up for diagnostics. I'm not going to drive two hours to the place where there might or might not be a dealer with the equipment.
I tried contacting Huskvarna through their website (no response yet two days later) of course though, the one site that allowed me to enter information was the Huskvarna Indonesia website.
I think it's a carburetor/ computer autotune module issue and would love to just bolt a replacement on to see if that's it.
Actually, I just want to send the whole saw back for a new one.
I guess I'll try contacting the site sponsor who I got it from to see if thay can do anything but really don't like that route as they are not responsible for a saw from huskvarna that doesn't run.
Here is a video of the saw in non-action
anyone have any suggestions on how to get hold of someone at husqvarna that might actually give a hoot that one of their new saws is basically what I would consider a 'lemon' and that might want to know that there is a potentially huge problem. I know that if more of these saws have this problem a lot of folks are going to stay with Stihl for their top handle saws (or switch from Husky to either Stihl or another manufacturer.
Rant over