Some of those S shaped fuel lines fail just using regular gasoline if you buy the China versions. If you're trying to save a little money on Stihl fuel lines I think Oregon makes a decent one and is cheaper than Stihl. Stens may have one also.
i agree with you on both. just wanted to demonstrate the YAHOO principle, you always have other options. i have had some luck with grommets and i have seen small stills with stock fuel lines that wouldn't run right when you tipped them on their sides. i like the husqvarna fuel lines better, grommets and spirals. anyway if it comes into my shop it will leave working right. as i said above, i have seen still "s" fuel lines that have failed, turned to putty and collapsed. i don't think they were asian knock-offs. not many hombres around here that get on the internet. we watch cowboy movies on telemundo. que viva john wayne!
heck, you live just a little north of the mason dixon line. i'm thinking the op is in the up.
I don't think our local dealer would sell a fuel line for $5-$7, maybe yours will. I think I paid $5 for the last AM one I bought, not Chinese. I agree with you on the Tygon, I imagine the stock black fuel lines that some saws (like Echo) use would be the best...problem is that nobody around here carries it. I have seen many of the Stihl fuel lines that don't go down in the tank far enough, in my opinion, so when you lay them down in either direction they would starve for fuel plus you have to keep the tank about half full all the time you're using it. The early 024 that I have is that way..
i've seen the same issues with small stihls. maybe they've corrected the problem... it might help to use a heavier filter. bigger huskies and echos both use a stout black fuel line, spiral in the tank and straight above the tank. i've never seen a problem with them either from e10 or getting the last sip out of the tank.
That sucks. I did one of those little stihls several years ago. My memory is that the old part was one piece molded and dealer sold me a grommet and line. Worked fine. Hasn't come back. I think he got it from his computer.
That would be the way to fix it. The old piece is one piece molded line as you said, looks kinda like an oil line for an 029.
well, it's been more than ten minutes ago so my memory can't be trusted but... as i recall, the stihl dealer looked up the part on his computer and it had changed from a one-piece molded fuel line to a grommet and black fuel line. you could check with a dealer and find out for sure. stihl just doesn't trust us mere inferior races with such arcane information as is found in an illustrated parts list.
that's a lame excuse. let me tell you a story. i rescued my 036 from the magnesium dumpster at acme scrap. got it all back together and running great all i needed was and oil pump cover, 1125 021 1200. looked everywhere, nla from stihl for years. finally found an outfit on the east coast that had three in stock. they couldn't sell them to me because stihl won't let them sell stihl parts except to walk-ins. it isn't even a stihl part now. that's something called restraint of trade. don't know about where you live but here all stihl dealers have to close on saturday afternoon and sunday when you actually have time t go to the store, restraint of trade.
