smokinj
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Ok guys just thought i would bump this thread,Few months ago i was milling with the big girl and about 4ft in this 8ftx 30" log the saw started to rev out ,at first i thought it was out of fuel so i let go of the trigger to let it idle ,whats strange is that i fill the tank before every cut so this had me stumped,when i let the trigger go it would just stay at WOT i tried to kill it on the switch,no good,i ended up throwing the chain brake on and then pushing it hard in the cut ,this worked and it stalled,
after about 1 hour of diagnosing and cleaning i came to the conclusion that it might be fuel related?,sortof,keeping in mind this thing is still under warranty i didn't want to pull the limmiter tabs off,intial thoughts were that the carb picked up some crap and blocked the circiuts,
anyway after about 3hrs of trying different things and pulling most of the skin from my hands trying to start the bloody thing and yeah some serious kick back going on i boxed it up ready to take to the dealer,
about a week later i dropped it of at the dealer and told them the story ,the first thing i was asked was "have you been running it 25:1",i told oldmate staight up YES and that its not seized or scored ,wel not by looking in through the intake and exhaust, all looked good to me ,all was good so i left it with them ,i rang their techs later that day and he said that it was a fuel problem,not getting any pulse from the crank and that he will have a look inside and get back to me,he pulled the cylinder and found that the impulse port in the case looked blocked and that there was a mark in the cyl which looked like a machining mark and a small piece missing and that the parts would have to be sent to stihl AU,this took like 4 weeks and i am thinking WTF,
anyway they made good with new parts P&C etc and labour all under warranty,good to have it back ,me thinks this saw had a problem all along because it has more grunt/balls now than it did before and it uses more fuel aswell,
gonna run the piss out of it while still under warranty just in case something else :censoredops up
I run 40:1