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Brizy


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Got it as a housewarming gift 3 years ago and it has done a good job....

Its a 2 stroke engine....Lately, I had to run it in the half choke position and keep the throttle open to keep it runnin.....

Now, it just starts and lasts about 10 seconds and dies...So tonight, I took the fuckin thing apart and cleaned out the carb completley....Changed the spark plug nad bored out the exhaust port....It ran for 30 seconds this time and died....

WTF?

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Evil Tu


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Put a new gas line on it. It's sucking air through a crack in the line.

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Tu 4 tu. Probably the ball/sinker/which way is down thingy in the gas tank, at that.

-- Edited by Snippy at 04:33, 2008-09-02

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Evil Tu wrote:

Put a new gas line on it. It's sucking air through a crack in the line.



Hmm, the gas line is very small and not long at all....I will try and wrap the thing in electrical tape and see what happens....



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Briz,

When my leaf blower appeared to be starved for fuel there was a small, fine mesh, fuel filter inside the carb--plugged with crud.  A new one made the problem go away, but maybe I could have cleaned the old one.

wes/ky

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Brizy


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Wes, I saw that and cleaned it thouroughly.....Im done with it and borrowing other peoples weed eaters to do the job now...

Thanks though...

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The Krink


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I've always been a firm believer in the electric
weed eater. Yeah you might have to have a
mile of extension cords to do the job but the
damn things do just as good of a job as the
gas powered. Usually a lot less expensive to
buy and a whole lot less fucking around with
it. (and you don't need a can of gas to make
it work.)

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Where the gas line usually cracks on where it goes onto the tank.

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The Krink wrote:

I've always been a firm believer in the electric
weed eater. Yeah you might have to have a
mile of extension cords to do the job but the
damn things do just as good of a job as the
gas powered. Usually a lot less expensive to
buy and a whole lot less fucking around with
it. (and you don't need a can of gas to make
it work.)


I'm with you Krink. Was at Lowe's last year and got a 18 volt Task Force trimmer. Came with 2 batts and a charger. Usually do whole job with one battery. No cords to pull around.
And..most importantly..no hot mufflers to burn yourself with... 



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Brizy


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Yeah, but dont you miss the smell of that 2 stroke exhaust all up in your face...?

I got St. Augustine grass which is a tough little bastard so I dont know if electric would work for me or not...

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Freddie Krueger


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Wow, grass named after a Saint.

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Best grass growing. (Legally.)

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I wish they would invent a weedeater for gravel
driveways. My gravel driveway is nothing more
than a gigantic seedbed. I don't instantly think
of "Roundup" like the majority of the population.
"Roundup" is a product offered "over the counter"
but should be banned for life like DDT. The average
consumer has no fucking clue what's in that shit.
I love those TV ads for Roundup when two neighbors
each armed with a spray bottle of Roundup in their
holsters converge on a single dandelion plant growing
from a crack in their cement driveways.
The word go is issued and they both spray the fucking
shit out of that dandelion. One could just bend down
manually remove the dandelion but then they wouldn't
sell much product. I have this Jerry Baker book with
homemade formulas for darn near anything but have
yet to try it on my driveway. I know it bugs me to have
a driveway full of weeds. I got this one weed that looks
alot like red clover with these exploding seed pods that
really drives me nuts. One touch and fucking seeds go
everywhere.

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I buy this toxic concentrated shit that I dilute with water and spray for weeds...Its some nasty shit but it does the job....We have clay as our bed so it doesnt soak too far into the ground...

They have the stuff you can spread around that will kill clover and many other types of weeds but its better to identify what it is so you're not wasting your money....

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It's been pretty dry this year up here, so the fucking weeds just start growing. I see shit growing you can't even identify.

This is no shit, I seen one of those prickly looking weeds starting on Monday. When I came home Wednesday morning, that fucking weed was over a foot tall. WTF?

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