What the hell am i doing wrong?!?

[Poacher]

Logging away yesterday with my Husky 353, got a bit carried away and ran out of fuel. Filled her up and now she wont start! I am sure i am over looking something but cannot figure out what.

I pulled the plug and that looks a bit black so leaned it off 1/3rd of a turn and cleaned it up. Got a nice healthy spark too. I tried it with the choke on/off decomp button works good and the plug is getting wet after a few tugs.

Any ideas before i peg it in the river?

[Jonesie]

If the plug is wet, you've flooded it. Take the plug out pull it over 10-15 times. Put the plug back in and start it without choke. Might still take a good few pulls though.

[Mesterh]

Probably just flooded.

 

Leave the plug out for a good while then give it a try.

 

You could try turning it over with the ignition off, the plug out and the saw upside to help/speed it up.

[swinny]

do as jonesie said, there can be excess fuel in the cylinder etc..... or hold the throttle on full and try start it that way

[Poacher]

Afraid to say i thought i may have flooded it, so i did the plug out and upside down/give it a few tugs bit. Also gave it a bit of low pressure air from the compressor to help dry things out, i did notice it was dripping a bit of fuel from down where the fuel line goes to the tank, not sure if thats where the breather is.

[Poacher]

I think i will leave it until about 10 o'clock and try it again then.

[Taupotreeman]

I have the same problem with my old 66. When I run it out of fuel it won't start. I have to leave it for a few minutes and then try again. Tried the plug thing but the plug is always bone dry though when i finally get the saw started up it sounds like it has been flooded. I have to feather the throttle until it revs enough that it won't stall.

[Mesterh]

I have the same problem with my old 66. When I run it out of fuel it won't start. I have to leave it for a few minutes and then try again. Tried the plug thing but the plug is always bone dry though when i finally get the saw started up it sounds like it has been flooded. I have to feather the throttle until it revs enough that it won't stall.

 

Do you restart it on choke or after refueling?

[Taupotreeman]

I've tried with choke, without choke, half throttle it just doesn't seem to want to fire up. I tried watching the fuel and when it's running low I'll stop and refuel. It's not too bad if I can refuel quick enough but if I take just that little bit too long it won't have a bar of it.

[Mesterh]

I always put it on choke after a refuel and it fires fine.

 

May need a bit of tweeking on the h/l screws