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Wasn’t flooded this afternoon. I guess the trash carb almost beat me. Not this time zama.

I' ll check tommorow if it pushed fuel through the carb overnight. Maybe that piece I found was getting under the needle and causing my flooding problem. Dang new carb I guess had a milled piece broke loose and started my problems. It looked like a piece of a thread or something.

After tearing the carb off today I found part of the problem. Under the needle there was a piece of metal. Looked as if it come from inside the carb itself. The piston looked good while I was there looking. The only other thing I seen while I had the carb off was fuel was pushing out the fuel...

I will tomorrow. Thanks for the advice.

It’s a new zama carb from stihl. I didn’t look at the intake side of the piston but the exhaust side looks fine.

I usually choke it. If you set it down hot it will flood a lot of times

I bought it from a former member here. Supposed to be new top end on it. Haven’t checked compression but it still feels stout. It has been a bear to start because if it don’t hit on the first couple pulls it’s flooded. The muffler is clear I just had it off because I was thinking the same thing.

It’s a relatively new carb so I’m hoping it’s not the problem. The choke looks wide open. I pulled the muffler and it’s not stopped up.

I have an 036 still that is a tough one to start. It will flood very easily. I’ve checked it over pretty good but today when I had the air filter off and had it running in the shop it was blowing a fair amount of mist of gas back out of the carb on my hand. I pulled my filter off of my 046 and...