JPR123

thanks. gave the gauze filter a good clean after a soak. waiting on Carb adjustment tools to arrive and will probably strip the ajusters out the carb completely and give it another soak and blow out then reassemble and adjust 🙂

thanks for the help so far. Today i had the carb off again and stripped down. let it soak in white spirit. gave it a blow out too. didnt have the right tool to take the H and L screws out so guess that could potentially be gunked up but tool on order and will try adjusting before another soak! Did check the gauze filter after soak and blew air through it but how do you get the bugger out? i do have a replacement so was gonna replace it anyway. how would you go about working out if air is getting in somewhere else? thanks again jon

I don't want to bin the saw but fundamentally it isn't really worth spending money on (bits so far were £14) if I don't need it/ would give it away after.

have been thinking. In my limited knowledge / experience world there are probably 2 possibilities. 1) A lack of fuel getting through. Means with the choke open it is too lean hence stalling. Solution probably a full carb disassembly / clean. How can i test the fuel lines / filter? suck on the fuel line and see what resistance there is? if i do this what should i be expecting? Hoping it isn't that as i replaces lines and filters. 2) Ingress of air from somewhere other than where it should be - again causing it to run lean with throttle open. 3) I have not messed / tweaked the carb settings but could it be these? How would i work out whether it is 1 or 2 or 3 above?

Hey all, I have a cheapo Homelite CSP3314 that I have had since new for little garden jobs. Has not been used much and not for a few years at least. Am pretty practical so I would like to get it running as I don't like waste and simply getting rid of stuff that can be fixed and used / passed on to someone who may use it. Long story short it wouldn't start so I have replaced the plug, fuel lines, fuel filter, purge bulb, air filter and the carb gaskets. Fresh fuel in it and it will start on full choke with the throttle locked on. As soon as you you push the throttle in half way it dies. within half a second. If i push the choke in very slightly and let a little more air in it will rev. I have not played with the carb adjustments as want it at lease running first before tweeking those. Any thoughts on likely problems / what to try next? As I said, I don't need to use it so more of a bit of fun to see if i can get it running properly. Thanks all