Husky carb tool? (Not splined)

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edrrt

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So I ordered the splined carburetor adjustment tool for my 357xp only to find that it doesn't fit. It has this over the carburetor and I can't find any information about what tool goes in there. Perhaps this is some type of California EPA limiter?

I can turn them a little with a flathead screwdriver but they are soft plastic and quickly round out. Due to the very limited adjustment of the stops, adjusting the high screw from one end of its range to the other produces no discernible change.
Should I take this off since they are getting rounded out? And if I do will will the splined connections be underneath it? It runs fine. I was just trying to perform the carburetor adjustment procedure that I had seen online and I really can't because you don't get any range out of it.
 
just guessing, but I'm thinking you have plastic limiters on your adjustment screws that need to be popped off....underneath you may find regular screwdriver slots so you can adjust.
 
I think if you remove the plastic there are tiny slots like for a screw driver and splined on the outside. I think I have a saw that the plastic has been removed. If so, I'll take a pic.
 
Just pop the caps off like said. Takes a normal flathead then. Just realise it's not always easy to adjust as the screws stick in the case a good bit farther with oit the limiter caps. I've been just taking the dremel to the limiters and smoothing them down. Hard to see but these have been ground down. Second pic is removed. See the big length difference?
 

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I’ve done both and prefer nipping the tabs over removing them. It's impossible to tune the tiny screw head with the saw vibrating while running. I only nipped one tab on my 357 - the tab that limits it from turning richer on the H screw.

The problem about stripping the plastic is that many screwdrivers taper down so that the tip is not wide enough and still be able to fit through the hole. Grinding the taper off a larger screwdriver works. When none of my small flatheads were long enough for a friend's saw, I cut the tip off a long nail and filed a flathead tip on it - worked great.
 
You just need a carb screwdriver. My snap on and my stihl carb screwdrivers
 

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If you take the carb off it’s easier to pop the caps off. Trim the limiter stops, and then line up the flathead slots with the screw slots and reinstall. Heat the tip of the screwdriver for a few seconds and push it through the limiter into the screw slot. Now the limiter cap works like a funnel to help line up your screwdriver
 
If you take the carb off it’s easier to pop the caps off. Trim the limiter stops, and then line up the flathead slots with the screw slots and reinstall. Heat the tip of the screwdriver for a few seconds and push it through the limiter into the screw slot. Now the limiter cap works like a funnel to help line up your screwdriver
Now you are getting all technical on the boy. He thinks there is a special tool that adjusts the tabs with limiter stops. edrrt they are made that way so you DON'T adjust them. Get it?
 
Now you are getting all technical on the boy. He thinks there is a special tool that adjusts the tabs with limiter stops. edrrt they are made that way so you DON'T adjust them. Get it?

Lol yes I get that. I'm just saying a flat head doesn't fit well. The cap doesn't have a flat slot. It has a hole in the enter and a small amount of slot on either side. A screw driver small enough to fit through the hole... is not able to turn the screws, within the range of the stops, without chewing up the plastic and rounding it out. Maybe that's just how it is designed.
But its a poor design. They are pretty much rounded out. So they either need to be replaced/fixed/ or just removed if the carb is going to need regular adjustments.
 
The caps arw on so you cant adjust the carb much. If you turned the plastic caps too much they stripped out. Like we all said, the limiters need trimmed off, then you can line up the caps with the slot in the actual carb screws, and use a small flat head to turn them on the steel carb screws. As you can see from my pics you are better off with modifying the plastic and keeping it then just taking it off.
 

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