Rockjock
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Gentlemen perhaps someone here could be of help! I am Located in Newmarket Ontario and my company has decided to send some of us down south to help in the storm clean up. Presently I have a MS 250 and thought ok that will be just fine. WELL I am standing at the local Home Depot getting gas cans and such when a customer chats me up and says I have a 2 year old Stihl MS290 that simply will not run want it? I say hmm sure ok.. Sounds good yeah.. well I get it and it looks to be in excellent kit. ( sorry looks new ) I am having no luck starting it, read a bit pull the muffler and there it is.. piston scored rings as well.. ok I think so I call around.. no one is interested in fixing this saw, does anyone know of a place that will repair it? My only other option is to bring it with me when I go to Germany in May to visit family and take it to my cousins father-in-law who owns a Stihl dealership and have it sorted there. I can get the parts and do it myself but the bloke I got it from did not look like the village idiot.. he told me he had 40 years plus with saws.. I am thinking it ran too lean? A leak somewhere… what else can I look for while I am doing this repair. Any clues why this happened?
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