OK, save me!
situation:
- weed wacker
- fuel line breaks at the carb
- while trying to pull it out of the tank some more it breaks again. Filter falls off.
- I pull it all the way out until it's flush with the tank wall inside so I can reach the carb.
- Decide to run it without filter to finish urgent job. After cleaning tank and draining it to remove most of the crud if any, can't see anything much.
- Works fine for a bit. When the level of fuel gets low it starts to die down. Usually can restart it after letting it stand. I think I see bubbles in the line usually when it dies. Thinking just sucking air, but not obvious cuz still some fuel in .
- start to get progressively more difficult to run.
- put more fuel in, should be plenty to cover the line stub in the tank.
- still gets more and more difficult to run.
- finally have to run it with the choke 1/2 on (per label, but it's really with the throttle plate 9/10 closed) and full throttle trigger on. Without the throttle trigger in all the way it does not run, just dies
- does not run at all without choke 1/2 on. Choke full no run either.
- lacks power.
so what does needing to run at 1/2 choke on all the time mean, with little power?
feels like not enough gas getting there
is it possible that not having the filter on messes up the fuel delivery rate and plays tricks with the carb?
Don't tell me there is now crud in the carb or I damaged the carb, please, I don't want to hear that!
(but if there is crud, can I just blow into the carb fuel intake with compressed air or is that a bad idea?)
sigh....
TIA
situation:
- weed wacker
- fuel line breaks at the carb
- while trying to pull it out of the tank some more it breaks again. Filter falls off.
- I pull it all the way out until it's flush with the tank wall inside so I can reach the carb.
- Decide to run it without filter to finish urgent job. After cleaning tank and draining it to remove most of the crud if any, can't see anything much.
- Works fine for a bit. When the level of fuel gets low it starts to die down. Usually can restart it after letting it stand. I think I see bubbles in the line usually when it dies. Thinking just sucking air, but not obvious cuz still some fuel in .
- start to get progressively more difficult to run.
- put more fuel in, should be plenty to cover the line stub in the tank.
- still gets more and more difficult to run.
- finally have to run it with the choke 1/2 on (per label, but it's really with the throttle plate 9/10 closed) and full throttle trigger on. Without the throttle trigger in all the way it does not run, just dies
- does not run at all without choke 1/2 on. Choke full no run either.
- lacks power.
so what does needing to run at 1/2 choke on all the time mean, with little power?
feels like not enough gas getting there
is it possible that not having the filter on messes up the fuel delivery rate and plays tricks with the carb?
Don't tell me there is now crud in the carb or I damaged the carb, please, I don't want to hear that!
(but if there is crud, can I just blow into the carb fuel intake with compressed air or is that a bad idea?)
sigh....
TIA