Turbosaurus
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thank you everyone for your help- this site is fabulous. In the last 4 days I tuned up &/or repaired two weedwackers, two backpack blowers and two lawnmowers! (my stuff, my dad's stuff and a neighbor's)!
Bad news is my dad and I are still down to one working weedwacker between us both and 2 that I can't get working. I already have a thread on the ryobi that I had to put aside for now. This is for the other.
This one I really want to fix, becasue its the only straight shaft >30ccs so its the only one that will take a brush cutter blade, the mugwort is already getting tall and blackberries are starting to creep over the wall.
Machine: Craftsman model 316.795002
sn: 008085248
This had been running great right up until a mouse chewed a hole in the gas tank- yes- chewed a hole! They don't make a replacement part anymore, so I spent a year or two trying every glue, tape and epoxy I could to seal it up, no dice until "shoe goo" which if you've never tried fixes/seals pretty much everything.. so I glued down a scrap of heavy duty PVC over the hole- and viola! It holds!
This weekend I took it apart, replaced the carb, priming bulb, seals, gas lines and filter. I tried to start it and I'm getting a little resistance on the pull cord and a slow retraction, no hint of starting. I pulled the spark plug and the resistance is less, retraction better, but still just a little slower than it should be. I replaced the spark plug (with a new one) and the resistance increased again.
What do I try next? Its been dry/stored for 2 years, perhaps more...
Bad news is my dad and I are still down to one working weedwacker between us both and 2 that I can't get working. I already have a thread on the ryobi that I had to put aside for now. This is for the other.
This one I really want to fix, becasue its the only straight shaft >30ccs so its the only one that will take a brush cutter blade, the mugwort is already getting tall and blackberries are starting to creep over the wall.
Machine: Craftsman model 316.795002
sn: 008085248
This had been running great right up until a mouse chewed a hole in the gas tank- yes- chewed a hole! They don't make a replacement part anymore, so I spent a year or two trying every glue, tape and epoxy I could to seal it up, no dice until "shoe goo" which if you've never tried fixes/seals pretty much everything.. so I glued down a scrap of heavy duty PVC over the hole- and viola! It holds!
This weekend I took it apart, replaced the carb, priming bulb, seals, gas lines and filter. I tried to start it and I'm getting a little resistance on the pull cord and a slow retraction, no hint of starting. I pulled the spark plug and the resistance is less, retraction better, but still just a little slower than it should be. I replaced the spark plug (with a new one) and the resistance increased again.
What do I try next? Its been dry/stored for 2 years, perhaps more...