Picked up a Huskee 22T with the B&S 675 engine a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday was the first chance I had to really split some wood with it.
Pulled it out of the 35° garage and commenced to trying to get it started. It took literally 150 pulls alternating between priming and pulling and drying the plug before it finally kept running on its own. I even read the owners manual for their starting suggestions (prime 3x, pull 6x, repeat). Once it started, it restarted just fine throughout the day.
Move ahead to today and a little warmer temps and sure enough, the same starting issues. Came in and looked around AS for similar problems and found one user that said hitting the primer 10x before pulling worked better for him but it was still difficult to start. I did try more priming and seemed to get it to catch a little more often but it was certainly not the silver bullet.
I changed the oil as soon as I got it to synthetic 5W-30 to try to help with cold weather starting. TSC said they use 20W hydraulic fluid.
Anyone else have starting issues like this with this splitter? I realize this is an opening price point unit but come on, a splitter engine that doesn't like to start in near freezing temps???
I'm going to go have a beer and try to calm my nerves a bit before I push this POS into the firepit:angry2::angry2:
Pulled it out of the 35° garage and commenced to trying to get it started. It took literally 150 pulls alternating between priming and pulling and drying the plug before it finally kept running on its own. I even read the owners manual for their starting suggestions (prime 3x, pull 6x, repeat). Once it started, it restarted just fine throughout the day.
Move ahead to today and a little warmer temps and sure enough, the same starting issues. Came in and looked around AS for similar problems and found one user that said hitting the primer 10x before pulling worked better for him but it was still difficult to start. I did try more priming and seemed to get it to catch a little more often but it was certainly not the silver bullet.
I changed the oil as soon as I got it to synthetic 5W-30 to try to help with cold weather starting. TSC said they use 20W hydraulic fluid.
Anyone else have starting issues like this with this splitter? I realize this is an opening price point unit but come on, a splitter engine that doesn't like to start in near freezing temps???
I'm going to go have a beer and try to calm my nerves a bit before I push this POS into the firepit:angry2::angry2: