Straight gas in new Husqvarna chainsaw! Wrecked? I check and am shocked!

[lone wolf]

It could also be the autotune doing it's thing, combined with lead fuel, leftover 2 stroke fuel in the tank and oil residue in the engine. Autotune has most likely fattened up the fuel mixture and saved your saw. Autotune saws will even run on chain oil. Guess how i know..

So will non auto tune ask me how I know.

 

[heyduke]

this is why i run mix in everything, including the chipper. you never know when someone on the crew has been smoking the weed with its roots in hell or is just dog tired at the end of the day. the chipper runs great on 50:1.

 

[gary courtney]

 

[HuskStihl]

I like 32:1 synthetic ester in the chipper.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Couple years back Carl got a saw in that needed to be tuned.
In the end it locked up while tuning, tank had just gas, no oil.
Well the customer had NO clue about mixing oil and had been running the saw for a couple years on regular gas.

 

[AKDoug]

this is why i run mix in everything, including the chipper. you never know when someone on the crew has been smoking the weed with its roots in hell or is just dog tired at the end of the day. the chipper runs great on 50:1.

I used to do the maintenance for a remote survey camp that included 6 boats (half mixed gas, half oil injected), 3 ATV's, and 20 chainsaws. The guys couldn't get their crap together and straight gassed two saws the first week. I just went out and pre-mixed all twenty 55 gallon drums of unleaded we had in camp. Everything ran just fine at 40:1 after that.

 

[Stock]

I don't keep any straight petrol, and a landscaping company I associate with hasn't for 20yrs and never had an issue with a 4 stroke or 2 stroke engine except for engines dying from high operating hours.

 

[Stihl99]

Wow very lucky and congrats you still have a operating saw.
I run the Stihl HP mix with 93 octane gas in my two-cycle gas cans, but I have my two cycle cans segregated by style, size, and brand with no other can for anything else remotely close to those cans so there could never be this mistake.

 

[lone wolf]

An old School Dirt bike mechanic once told me that if you have it tuned right it will run without oil in the fuel . Possible for how long?

 

[Chris-PA]

That stuff must be good! Extended warrantees even.

Pretty darn impressive how well it protects an engine when it isn't even there - it must really be good!

 

[Gypo Logger]

Could you tell us what kind of oil you were using? I want some.

 

[Paragon Builder]

Stihl synthetic, or Husqvarna Premix. Mostly Stihl synthetic though.

 

[banana boat]

Well the customer had NO clue about mixing oil and had been running the saw for a couple years on regular gas.

I drain the oil out of all my vehicles and they run for years and years I think the oil just gets in the way

 

[wood4heat]

I was riding my CR at Coos Bay Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area about ten years and couldn't get it to stop detonation. Even with my biggest jet and the needle raised to its highes position it was still detonating. I dumped a gallon of raw fuel in with 3 gallons of mix and it fattened my air/fuel just enough to stop the pinging! Ran fine the rest of the weekend.

 

[barneyrb]

Couple years back Carl got a saw in that needed to be tuned.
In the end it locked up while tuning, tank had just gas, no oil.
Well the customer had NO clue about mixing oil and had been running the saw for a couple years on regular gas.

So you are telling us a saw ran for a "couple of years" on regular gas? Are you an idiot and do you think we are idiots (to believe something like that)?

 

[Fubar]

last summer my son straight gassed my weed whacked while doing the yard , it started revving up like a chainsaw i came outside and told him to stop doing that , and not blow it up , he said it just started running good so he figured he would just go with it , i looked in the tank no oil what so ever, even after i showed him the jug marked "weed eater " .... oh it still runs it just rattles like a box of hammers , i tore it down and didn't see anything that looked that bad except the roller bearings..he probably ran a whole tank through it ....

 

[barneyrb]

VF is to the point he can't distinguish the lies from the truth.....

 

[angelo c]

I like 32:1 synthetic ester in the chipper.

Gas or diesel ?

 

[nmurph]

VF is to the point he can't distinguish the lies from the truth.....

Randy, are joining the club of those who give VF a hard time? I'll slide over, the bus is kinda full.

 

[DSS]

So you are telling us a saw ran for a "couple of years" on regular gas? Are you an idiot and do you think we are idiots (to believe something like that)?

I think both your questions are redundant bro.

He's definitely a piece of work.