I have a small, one cylinder, two stroke engine on a Mantis tiller. The air filter gets fuel soaked after 30 minutes of use. It runs normally with a new air filter or when the air filter is removed. The tiller starts to bog down as the air filters starts to gat fuel soaked. It has fuel spitting out of the carb when it runs. It has an Echo engine...will a carb kit correct this? What causes this? Just curious. Thanks.
Fuel Soaked Air Filter
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I had a saw do that once. The rings were stuck.
Thank you for the info! Maybe I'll pull the muffler and shoot some PB Blaster at the rings. It might be time to pull the engine and send it off to a rebuilder. It's over 20 years old and it has never let me down. It might be tired.
tickhound93
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At 20 years old another thing comes to mind, worn piston on the intake side. Fairly common, as the piston diameter decreases it can rock, or in general just be too loose to seal intake port during primary compression.
Yes sir.
If it is a reed valve engine the reed could be leaking.
Had a chainsaw that did this, took the carb apart, soaked it in carb cleaner, put it back together, problem gone.
