What's on your bench today?

[MattyF]

Do you have any opinion on the aspen being used on the 81 spud ... It's great stuff but sticky!,just wondering if it had gummed it up.

[Martyn Amos]

this was on my bench today??? A TRAMP..:thumbup:

 

[spudulike]

Do you have any opinion on the aspen being used on the 81 spud ... It's great stuff but sticky!,just wondering if it had gummed it up.

 

To be honest, I sorted out the cutters, had a BBQ, 3/4 bottle of vino, had a little snooze, stripped the carb, cleaned it, rebuilt it, reset the H&L screw and bingo, despite the vino, it worked and checked it cold a while ago and it starts fine.

 

I can take a better look at it, the plug looked new? Don't know if it has been changed. I may look at the spark arrestor in the exhaust before I return it, that should tell a tale but from what I hear, Aspen should run cleaner than standard two stroke!

 

Not easy to tell how it will run without giving it a thrash for an hour - Wolfmans was a bitch but may be down to the arrestor.

 

It is ideling and revving out fine now, not like when it arrived - it is possible, if you have just gone over to aspen, the carb just needed a little adjustment but gave it a good looking at to make sure.

[spudulike]

this was on my bench today??? A TRAMP..:thumbup:

 

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Kick the bugger off, making the place look untidy!!

[burrell_]

aspen will need to be tuned diffrent as most of my stuff needed tuning when put on aspen

[MattyF]

It's been ran on aspen for about 2 years..the plug is the original I think just cleaned up ,if you look inside the head it will look new.. Or did last time I had it apart a year or so ago.

Sure it Wil be fine now !

[spudulike]

aspen will need to be tuned diffrent as most of my stuff needed tuning when put on aspen

 

Like I said, Aspen may have had an effect and needed a retune, I could have just tweaked the L screw and thrown it back but the carb had a few years crud around it and resembled a horse turd so thought cleaning it may be a good option:thumbup:

 

The carb looked clean inside, the fuel jets were clear and just tweaked the metering arm upwards, checked the needle valve and the trimmer fired up sweet as a nut and then just tweaked the H & L screw to get it to rev out OK.

 

Will give it a longer go next weekend as it still needs a new choke lever and will see it it goes OK but reckon it will - nice and sharp now and no wobbly blades:thumbup:

[burrell_]

thats intresting matty if its all clean is it worth the bit more cost to fuel to keep ur 2STROKE stuff going ie on carbon etc

i no aspen burns alot cleaner but always wondered how much cleaner

[Dan Earp]

Ive now got a stihl 009 for very cheap, going to strip it tomorrow and hopefully get it running ready to teach my boys

[Matthew Arnold]

Got a BCS Flail ready and waiting in the workshop for a serious maintenance session. It needs stripping down and degreasing. We lent it out with it all working and it came back only able to go backwards and a horrid grinding sound when engaging the PTO for the flail deck. Also now have a sick HL100 hedgecutter. It runs fine on full throttle but as soon as it goes to idle it dies or is searching for idle as if it is starved of fuel. Got a fuel filter for a brushcutter so will do a swap and see if that is the problem.

 

Sorted the problem with the HL101 hedgecutter. It was a blocked fuel filter and a burnt out spark plug because it was running lean it had cooked the plug so now running in harmony. Still waiting for parts for the BCS flail but it is currently in 2 pieces with all relevant bolts,washers and springs in bags tied onto where they will be on the flail. Got a big notice on both pieces saying "Do not fiddle around with me, you wont be able to find my nic nacs or doo dahs".