PWB
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A few months ago, this thing started to get hard to start first time. Cut great all day after the initial start. Usually smoked bad for the first 5 or ten seconds like it was flooded. Sometimes a few drops of fuel on the air filter were needed for that first start.
Decided to pull the carb today to have a look, found a little sawdust under both covers, but the carb was basicly very clean. all the geskets, pump diaphram etc. look good. Put it back together, now have a major flooding issue. Had to disconnect the fuel line to the carb to get it to fire, idled about 15 seconds before it stalled. Hook fuel back up, same thing again. Had the carb apart twice now, not sure what's going on. Pulled the needle out for a look the second time, looks like a new one. How high should the lever be sitting? level with the casting it's sitting in, or with the main body? Ony thing I can think of at the moment that would be causing the flooding. Maybe I bumped it the first time I pulled it apart? Had a problem before I got in there though.....
Decided to pull the carb today to have a look, found a little sawdust under both covers, but the carb was basicly very clean. all the geskets, pump diaphram etc. look good. Put it back together, now have a major flooding issue. Had to disconnect the fuel line to the carb to get it to fire, idled about 15 seconds before it stalled. Hook fuel back up, same thing again. Had the carb apart twice now, not sure what's going on. Pulled the needle out for a look the second time, looks like a new one. How high should the lever be sitting? level with the casting it's sitting in, or with the main body? Ony thing I can think of at the moment that would be causing the flooding. Maybe I bumped it the first time I pulled it apart? Had a problem before I got in there though.....