Hi everyone hope you all had a nice Christmas.
It has been awhile since my last post I guess that means all has gone relatively well. We just has a pretty good ice storm up where I live in central Maine. I was in the woods the other day making some tractor tracks for the deer to have a place free of this super hard crust to walk on. I try to keep places connected by tractor tracks from one thicket to another for them during a super hard icing event like we just had the other day.
Anyway I went back today to cut a few Cedar trees for them to eat on. I had one of my 5000's with me the saw runs fine upright and when the recoil side is facing up towards the sky as well. Although when the clutch side is facing skyward the saw starts to flood out and hog up. As I sit here now all I can smell is the saw gas on me, ( kind of like that tho) I can see it spilling out from under the Carb cover slowly seeping over the lower handle assembly.
After a few pulls it will start right up and run fine again until I tilt it clutch up then I will happen again . It is like it starts to run SUPER RICH super fast. I am sure the first thought should probably be crank seal and that may be it. I was wondering If I should check something else though first? Is there anything else that would cause this? I have done seals and bearings before in a different 5000 and I guess I can again, but if you do think it is a seal,....Can I drill and screw into it and pull it out and change the seal that way, rather than pull the case halves apart ? Thanks for your thoughts Jeff.
It has been awhile since my last post I guess that means all has gone relatively well. We just has a pretty good ice storm up where I live in central Maine. I was in the woods the other day making some tractor tracks for the deer to have a place free of this super hard crust to walk on. I try to keep places connected by tractor tracks from one thicket to another for them during a super hard icing event like we just had the other day.
Anyway I went back today to cut a few Cedar trees for them to eat on. I had one of my 5000's with me the saw runs fine upright and when the recoil side is facing up towards the sky as well. Although when the clutch side is facing skyward the saw starts to flood out and hog up. As I sit here now all I can smell is the saw gas on me, ( kind of like that tho) I can see it spilling out from under the Carb cover slowly seeping over the lower handle assembly.
After a few pulls it will start right up and run fine again until I tilt it clutch up then I will happen again . It is like it starts to run SUPER RICH super fast. I am sure the first thought should probably be crank seal and that may be it. I was wondering If I should check something else though first? Is there anything else that would cause this? I have done seals and bearings before in a different 5000 and I guess I can again, but if you do think it is a seal,....Can I drill and screw into it and pull it out and change the seal that way, rather than pull the case halves apart ? Thanks for your thoughts Jeff.