willt1981
ArboristSite Member
I have troy blit LS27 with a honda engine that I've been running for three years. I use it alot, I probably split 50 cords a year to sell, and it has worked great. This year the automatic return started messing up. It would kick off at random times before the cylinder had been fully retracted. Eventually it wouldn't work at all. Like an idiot I took the valve apart to see what was inside. Needless to say things went flying into the wood pile. It seems like the return works by seating some sort of bb looking balls into a grove in the cylinder cap by way of a spring (this is an Energy valve). Either way, I no longer have all the bb looking balls and no incling how to put it back together properly. I put it back together and it works but obviously without the auto-return, which I've gotten very used to. My question is - can someone rebuild this valve or is a new one in order? Which leads to the next question of should I buy a troy bilt valve ($215 w/o shipping) or a generic one from northern hydraulic ($80 w/o shipping)? Thoughts?