With the step-by-step help of your video, I did it! Thank you for your clear instructions. My trimmer. is ready to tackle some gnarly weeds at my barn.🤠
A long while back I had an old Ryobi gas weed eater. It used to leak and I replaced the prime bulb and hose for cheap. About a year or so later it was giving me problems starting. It was before my time of using UA-cam to trouble shoot, so I ditched it on the curb. Gone in 10 minutes. Bought a new one with a chain saw attachment for cutting limbs. Had it for a few years and the engine stalled out while I had it vertical to cut a higher limb. Never could get it to start again, and it was still ahead of my UA-cam days. Oh well. Love to watch your videos preemptively now.
Hey Andrew another good maintenance item is also cleaning the spark arrestor in the muffler. Also the fs90r has valves that need to be adjusted from time to time. Stihl has a tool to set the gap for that.
I like Steve’s channel, there’s another good one for small two-stroke stuff called Chickanic. She and her husband owned a shop and fix this and lawnmowers and stuff like that for some like 20 years I think and she’s awesome at doing stuff like telling you how to get non-OEM gaskets that are made by the same company, but are half the price on some stuff, like if you buy a rebuild kit from Husqvarna at $75, but you can get the same kit made by the same company for eight bucks, you know the right part number and all that and she’s been doing it so long she has a lot of these memorized lol. I don’t know why I watch so many of these, but I just like them, there’s another guy called Teryl fixes all, and he’s kind of a dork and tries to make his videos. Funny but he’s kind of entertaining at some of those videos have some pretty good tech and he does a lot of cool antique stuff as well. But I’ve learned a lot of stuff from them. Usually I’m trying to fix something and looking at videos, and just sort of kept watching those channels. lol
i used to rebuild them small carbs back in 99 and into 2001! i always got stuck doing them because i cold get them done and working like nothing! the best advise i can give is to adjusting the high and low is get it to the highest rpm in idel and wide open and back the adjustment out just a tad so you dont run it lean and burn the piston and cylinder up! a little rich means propper lubercation!
Boats out of the shop. Does that mean we’re getting an ocean fishing video on the outdoors channel sometime soon??? I love that you mentioned Steve (Steve’s Small Engine Saloon) also. He’s another one of my favorite channels!
@@TKCL I’ve actually been worried about that for a while now since you’ve started doing a lot of metal work. I about ruined a paint job on a truck once that sat in the shop where I did a lot of grinding/metal work.
Hi, Andrew! This is a valuable video. Every person who owns any equipment needs to watch this video. If they would, you could save them a lot of money. I noticed that UA-cam had changed my status and I was not getting some notifications. Maybe on the livestream you could tell everyone to check and make sure they haven’t been changed as well.
I get really tired of dealing with the old two-stroke engines😂😂 i’m glad some of the Electric stuff has really caught up and is actually pretty functional and powerful enough to be useful. I’ll still keep a gas chainsaw, but even some of the electric chainsaws are pretty nice for small jobs or even limping. I’ve had two strokes where I probably spent more time trying to get them running then I did using them.😂😂. One thing I found with two stroke and four stroke is you’ve got to use them. They hate to sit around and you’ve always gotta get rid of the gas when you’re done you’ve got an empty it out and it’s a good idea to even run a little after run fluid or ATF or oil through them to keep them from rusting and getting corroded inside lol. but they definitely don’t like sitting around. My chainsaw somebody used and left a mix in it and it sat for about two years before I went to use it again and figured out that I have to tear it apart and clean it all out first.😂 I just used my Milwaukee pole saw instead. Electric is pretty nice if it is small enough job where it will work.
I agree on the electric stuff, I am slowly preferring some of it. I am very curious about an electric saw for light or occasional use. I'll for sure be keeping gas saws for my heavy cutting.
Buy a factory carb, don't use ethanol and please use Opti 2 two stroke oil with stabilizer already in it. And you wont be thinking about ANY battery powered weed eater. Research Opti 2 I run it dry after every season but not always. Love the videos!!!!
I never run ethanol, always use premium oil and still have problems every few years. The last time this was serviced at a dealer it was $125 to replace the carb on a $199 weed eater. I do my own service now.
@@TKCL I honestly have never replaced a carb in my entire 25 years of running a medium to large Lawn and landscaping maintenance business. This is wild to me. We run mostly echo, redmax , Shindaiwa and husqvarna. We buy the opti 2 in a 5 gallon mix bucked , buy the exact mix pumper and run ethanol free 89 or higher and never had one carb or engine failure with 37 employees running them at various times. My other passion is Aviation and Aviation maintenance A&P/ IA. Why i recommended 100 low led in storage off season non catconverter equipment . This is a head scratcher to me!!! Love the content and thank you for your videos!!!
This might be a stupid idea, but I wonder what would happen if you use two or three LED lights at the same time, if they would be sting at a different frequency, or the frequency would be hitting at a different time to where it would look like the light was on the whole time and not flicker on the video. It’s not that bad though. I’m glad you left it in. lol
LOL dang, I just bout a triple LED light. It arrived yesterday! We will find out soon, plus I am wondering if being plugged into wall power will make the difference I am looking for.
You did another video at some point because I bought a kit for my lawn mower. Took pictures to remind myself how everything was put together and the mower runs better than it did new, it used to run like it was at NASCAR and after the carb replacement it runs at a nice pace without bogging out, I actually did throw away a weedeater that needed the carb but once I had it opened up I saw that I would have to replace the plastic housing as it had chewed a hole in itself! I reckon something was off kilter so decided it was better off junk so it couldn't hurt any one
They say the measure of a man is how many small engines he can keep running at a time. Seems like there are always a half dozen or so when you live the rural lifestyle. One thing you said that can't be understated is run NON-ETHANOL fuel in your small engines. My problems essentially went away when I started doing that years ago.
Fine tooth circular saw blades work well for that,,,,,,,wear steel toe boots,,the blades kick back,,especially if your not running a guard,,,,,,,it can be very dangerous,,,Don't take my advice...Lol
I don't understand why you, and others from USA are always knocking ethanol fuel. I use it in everything, car, motorbike, mower, and line trimmer, without any problems. I can only assume the stuff you have over there is very different to what we have. Now if it was just ordinary gas with some added ethanol, that would be fine. But it is not. All sorts of things can also be added to the mix and I think this is where the problem is. Ethanol has an octane rating of about 109, so by adding that they can also add things with a low octane rating to keep the octane of the finished product in the ball park.
It's the common sitting and storage of fuel for outdoor equipment that's the problem. Ethanol fuel has a tendency to collect and seperarate out water. Not to mention most small equipment isn't designed for the effects of ethanol. Rubber seals, hoses and gaskets don't like it either.
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It makes me feel good to watch a video that's already uploaded while you are hunkered down in your bunker with Tiffany and the dogs 🇺🇲
Yesterday was no fun!
With the step-by-step help of your video, I did it! Thank you for your clear instructions. My trimmer. is ready to tackle some gnarly weeds at my barn.🤠
So glad it helped you!
A long while back I had an old Ryobi gas weed eater. It used to leak and I replaced the prime bulb and hose for cheap. About a year or so later it was giving me problems starting. It was before my time of using UA-cam to trouble shoot, so I ditched it on the curb. Gone in 10 minutes. Bought a new one with a chain saw attachment for cutting limbs. Had it for a few years and the engine stalled out while I had it vertical to cut a higher limb. Never could get it to start again, and it was still ahead of my UA-cam days. Oh well. Love to watch your videos preemptively now.
Next time toss a cheap carb in it, you will be surprised how easy it is.
Hey Andrew another good maintenance item is also cleaning the spark arrestor in the muffler. Also the fs90r has valves that need to be adjusted from time to time. Stihl has a tool to set the gap for that.
Valid point
I like Steve’s channel, there’s another good one for small two-stroke stuff called Chickanic. She and her husband owned a shop and fix this and lawnmowers and stuff like that for some like 20 years I think and she’s awesome at doing stuff like telling you how to get non-OEM gaskets that are made by the same company, but are half the price on some stuff, like if you buy a rebuild kit from Husqvarna at $75, but you can get the same kit made by the same company for eight bucks, you know the right part number and all that and she’s been doing it so long she has a lot of these memorized lol. I don’t know why I watch so many of these, but I just like them, there’s another guy called Teryl fixes all, and he’s kind of a dork and tries to make his videos. Funny but he’s kind of entertaining at some of those videos have some pretty good tech and he does a lot of cool antique stuff as well. But I’ve learned a lot of stuff from them. Usually I’m trying to fix something and looking at videos, and just sort of kept watching those channels. lol
I also occasionally have watched Chickanic, not sure about the other channel you mentioned.
I haven't been here for a LONG time - I need to review your solar videos and catch up!! Blessings and Cheers!
Thank you for watching
You do a great job giving detailed information about maintaining your equipment. Keep up the excellent videoing.
Thanks, will do!
I am sure this is very helpful to many. Stay well!
I hope so!
i used to rebuild them small carbs back in 99 and into 2001! i always got stuck doing them because i cold get them done and working like nothing! the best advise i can give is to adjusting the high and low is get it to the highest rpm in idel and wide open and back the adjustment out just a tad so you dont run it lean and burn the piston and cylinder up! a little rich means propper lubercation!
Agree on the running lean, it's a killer.
Boats out of the shop. Does that mean we’re getting an ocean fishing video on the outdoors channel sometime soon???
I love that you mentioned Steve (Steve’s Small Engine Saloon) also. He’s another one of my favorite channels!
No we moved the boat due to all the metal dust (rust) being made in the shop.
@@TKCL I’ve actually been worried about that for a while now since you’ve started doing a lot of metal work. I about ruined a paint job on a truck once that sat in the shop where I did a lot of grinding/metal work.
Hi, Andrew! This is a valuable video. Every person who owns any equipment needs to watch this video. If they would, you could save them a lot of money. I noticed that UA-cam had changed my status and I was not getting some notifications. Maybe on the livestream you could tell everyone to check and make sure they haven’t been changed as well.
I hope people find it useful. Thank you for the feedback, we do need to bring that up.
Very true info
Hi Andrew, good common fence video, nice to know. Thanks 👍👍❤️❤️🇨🇦
I get really tired of dealing with the old two-stroke engines😂😂 i’m glad some of the Electric stuff has really caught up and is actually pretty functional and powerful enough to be useful. I’ll still keep a gas chainsaw, but even some of the electric chainsaws are pretty nice for small jobs or even limping. I’ve had two strokes where I probably spent more time trying to get them running then I did using them.😂😂.
One thing I found with two stroke and four stroke is you’ve got to use them. They hate to sit around and you’ve always gotta get rid of the gas when you’re done you’ve got an empty it out and it’s a good idea to even run a little after run fluid or ATF or oil through them to keep them from rusting and getting corroded inside lol. but they definitely don’t like sitting around. My chainsaw somebody used and left a mix in it and it sat for about two years before I went to use it again and figured out that I have to tear it apart and clean it all out first.😂 I just used my Milwaukee pole saw instead. Electric is pretty nice if it is small enough job where it will work.
I agree on the electric stuff, I am slowly preferring some of it. I am very curious about an electric saw for light or occasional use. I'll for sure be keeping gas saws for my heavy cutting.
Buy a factory carb, don't use ethanol and please use Opti 2 two stroke oil with stabilizer already in it. And you wont be thinking about ANY battery powered weed eater. Research Opti 2 I run it dry after every season but not always. Love the videos!!!!
I never run ethanol, always use premium oil and still have problems every few years. The last time this was serviced at a dealer it was $125 to replace the carb on a $199 weed eater. I do my own service now.
@@TKCL I honestly have never replaced a carb in my entire 25 years of running a medium to large Lawn and landscaping maintenance business. This is wild to me. We run mostly echo, redmax , Shindaiwa and husqvarna. We buy the opti 2 in a 5 gallon mix bucked , buy the exact mix pumper and run ethanol free 89 or higher and never had one carb or engine failure with 37 employees running them at various times. My other passion is Aviation and Aviation maintenance A&P/ IA. Why i recommended 100 low led in storage off season non catconverter equipment . This is a head scratcher to me!!! Love the content and thank you for your videos!!!
Good day to all. Timely.
Morning!
This might be a stupid idea, but I wonder what would happen if you use two or three LED lights at the same time, if they would be sting at a different frequency, or the frequency would be hitting at a different time to where it would look like the light was on the whole time and not flicker on the video. It’s not that bad though. I’m glad you left it in. lol
LOL dang, I just bout a triple LED light. It arrived yesterday! We will find out soon, plus I am wondering if being plugged into wall power will make the difference I am looking for.
@@TKCL that’s awesome, it’s not really a huge important thing, but it would be interesting to find out. lol
💪💪 love the fix it videos
Thank you for watching
Nice video. Hope it helps others out. Thank you Andrew
I hope so as well!
Great info!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome educational video. Thanks for sharing. 🫠
Thanks for watching!
You did another video at some point because I bought a kit for my lawn mower. Took pictures to remind myself how everything was put together and the mower runs better than it did new, it used to run like it was at NASCAR and after the carb replacement it runs at a nice pace without bogging out, I actually did throw away a weedeater that needed the carb but once I had it opened up I saw that I would have to replace the plastic housing as it had chewed a hole in itself! I reckon something was off kilter so decided it was better off junk so it couldn't hurt any one
Glad our content is helpful! Thanks for watching!
Hey Andrew. Great video! I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but someone stole your boat! Where is it? Did Tiffany go fishing without you?
Lol it's now outside under the barn. Too much work going on in the shop.
Ahh such pleasure in fixing your own stuff.
It sure is!
I put evrything OEM stihl parts!
Mix seafood in with gas I never have shop bill
They say the measure of a man is how many small engines he can keep running at a time. Seems like there are always a half dozen or so when you live the rural lifestyle. One thing you said that can't be understated is run NON-ETHANOL fuel in your small engines. My problems essentially went away when I started doing that years ago.
That makes a huge difference
Fine tooth circular saw blades work well for that,,,,,,,wear steel toe boots,,the blades kick back,,especially if your not running a guard,,,,,,,it can be very dangerous,,,Don't take my advice...Lol
I'll be clearing heavy brush in the future. That saw blade works excellent for that.
I don't understand why you, and others from USA are always knocking ethanol fuel. I use it in everything, car, motorbike, mower, and line trimmer, without any problems. I can only assume the stuff you have over there is very different to what we have. Now if it was just ordinary gas with some added ethanol, that would be fine. But it is not. All sorts of things can also be added to the mix and I think this is where the problem is. Ethanol has an octane rating of about 109, so by adding that they can also add things with a low octane rating to keep the octane of the finished product in the ball park.
It's the common sitting and storage of fuel for outdoor equipment that's the problem. Ethanol fuel has a tendency to collect and seperarate out water. Not to mention most small equipment isn't designed for the effects of ethanol. Rubber seals, hoses and gaskets don't like it either.