All,
I've been in the market for a blower and happened to find a weedeater at a local garage sale for $10 (my best find that day). Anyway, I took it home and got it to fire up. I cleaned the filter and replaced the plug and ran it for about 2 minutes that day to blow off my deck. Tonight I finished with the string trimmer and got it out. It fired right up, but about 3-4 minutes into the run, the engine bogged a bit and then sputtered to a stop. When I tried to pull the cord again, it pulls out about 3 inches and then hits a hard stop.
My concern is that since I did not swap out the gas when I got it that it may have been either straight gas or a lower oil ratio then was required (40:1), which may have blown the motor. However, part of me finds it hard to believe that a 2-cycle would run close to 5 minutes with straight gas. Is this possible?
If it's blown, it's blown. At least I will have learned the lesson of draining out the gas, and so will some folks on this forum (unless I'm the only one who would not have done that ) Then it's on to plan B of getting a Stihl BG55 (much nicer, but $140 more).
Any thoughts?
Pete
I've been in the market for a blower and happened to find a weedeater at a local garage sale for $10 (my best find that day). Anyway, I took it home and got it to fire up. I cleaned the filter and replaced the plug and ran it for about 2 minutes that day to blow off my deck. Tonight I finished with the string trimmer and got it out. It fired right up, but about 3-4 minutes into the run, the engine bogged a bit and then sputtered to a stop. When I tried to pull the cord again, it pulls out about 3 inches and then hits a hard stop.
My concern is that since I did not swap out the gas when I got it that it may have been either straight gas or a lower oil ratio then was required (40:1), which may have blown the motor. However, part of me finds it hard to believe that a 2-cycle would run close to 5 minutes with straight gas. Is this possible?
If it's blown, it's blown. At least I will have learned the lesson of draining out the gas, and so will some folks on this forum (unless I'm the only one who would not have done that ) Then it's on to plan B of getting a Stihl BG55 (much nicer, but $140 more).
Any thoughts?
Pete
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