Any tricks to make starting a Stihl easy?
I have had an 028 for 20 years. It always starts but never easy. Many pulls. This spring it didn't start. Now starts sometimes but has to warm up for 10 minutes at trigger lock speed. Any attempt at changing speed before warm kills engine. Yesterday started. Today no start. After many pulls plug was dry.
Needing a reliable saw, I got a MS 250 last spring. Floods very easy. I think it sees me coming and drinks a tsp of gas. Seller told me to pull until hear one sputter then un choke. Sometimes works but sometimes flooded at that point. The one sputter is not easy to detect.
Today I took both saws out to finish the job I started yesterday and neither would start. New saw flooded. Old saw no fuel.
The old saw is probably dead, but any hints at starting the new saw reliably?
Thanks
Geoff
I have had an 028 for 20 years. It always starts but never easy. Many pulls. This spring it didn't start. Now starts sometimes but has to warm up for 10 minutes at trigger lock speed. Any attempt at changing speed before warm kills engine. Yesterday started. Today no start. After many pulls plug was dry.
Needing a reliable saw, I got a MS 250 last spring. Floods very easy. I think it sees me coming and drinks a tsp of gas. Seller told me to pull until hear one sputter then un choke. Sometimes works but sometimes flooded at that point. The one sputter is not easy to detect.
Today I took both saws out to finish the job I started yesterday and neither would start. New saw flooded. Old saw no fuel.
The old saw is probably dead, but any hints at starting the new saw reliably?
Thanks
Geoff