Several years ago my buddy pulled an old Stihl 08s out of a dumpster at the land fill. He had to grab it quick, they have signs up stating no scrounging. It was real hard to pull over with the plug in. Pulled the plug and if was still hard to pull. So, I put the plug back in and set it on the shelf to look pretty. Yesterday I took it down to play with it. Pulled the recoil, and off the saw "IT" was hard to pull. With the plug out, hooked to the plug wire, I turned the flywheel over by hand and got a nice bright spark. Put a few drops of oil on the recoil and kept working it till it loosened up. Put every thing back together and shot a prime in the carb. Second pull it started up. It would run for about 10 seconds on a good prime. Filled the tank half full to see if it would draw from the tank. Nothing. So, I'm rolling it around on the work bench wiping it down. Rolled it upside down and gas poured out of it. Looked in the carb box and there was a shiny nipple sticking up from the tank. No fuel line from the tank to the carb. Might be why they couldn't get it to run.
