Well I have a boring up-date, I have been cutting some firewood the last week and solely running the Dolmar. Leaving the 35 year old Partner in the shed, but I tell ya that is getting harder and harder to do.
The first thing I did was pull out the tank vent media/ fiber filter and then the duck bill vent itself. When I took the duck bill out,... and it came out kind of hard I kept loosing my grip on it with the forceps this was caused by suction,.. when I got a good grip on it with the forceps and pulled it up out of the hole you could hear a loud gurgle from within the tank. I said there, maybe that was the issue? I took small nippers and cut about a millimeter off the end of it and reinstalled it then the filter media.
It was still hard to re-start after running it and letting it sit for 10 minuets or more and was falling on it's face when the throttle squeezed . So I opened the low end up till it revved great off idle when I blipped the throttle. Still when I run it for 5 minutes or a half hour and you shut it off for longer than 10 minutes you cannot re-start the saw?
The next step was to open the fuel cap to see if that helped it to re-start after having it running ,..it did not help. When I try to re-start it I set the choke lever up to the choke position then snap it down to the run position before trying to restart it and that almost never helps. I always end up pulling it over 4-5 times then I give up and choke it for real and after 2-3 pulls it either pops, starts or I shut the choke back off (so I don't flood it) and pull it some more,... after about 3-4 more pulls It starts. However by then I have pulled a warm new saw 11 or 12 times to restart a saw that I just used no more than 10 minutes ago?
I drop a few trees (3 or 4) then limb them up and shut off the saw, then hook them to the tractor haul them to the wood yard about a 10 minute twitch ride away then try to restart the saw to cut these trees down to length from tree length. WTH is left to try with this thing? I really hate to start taking the carb apart on a new saw, This saw now as of today maybe has 7 cord of wood on it. It just doesn't seem like I should have to begin tearing it down with only a few hours on the engine? Any thoughts or opinions are welcome. I can get by like this I guess but this is NOT the reason I bought a brand new saw I really needed one that starts more easily than my 35 year old Partners and this one most definitely does not.
