Ewing Waymire
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- Jan 8, 2018
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- Location
- Poteau, Oklahoma
Good Morning everyone!
I am new to your forum and sort of new to chainsaws, so (IF it is possible) be gentle with me (or whip my arsk if it is needed) but whatever it takes, I'd like to get some input with my issue.
For background, I've had a Echo CS-590 for about a year and used it some felling trees and a little milling with a PantherMill2. I didn't want to only have one saw (just in case) and the Echo was at its limit in what I was doing (or maybe I'm in just too big of a hurry).
I tried my best to read everything that I could find (but there is so much stuff out there, IS it really possible to read it all?) I watched lots of good and not so good youtube videos.
Bought a FarmerTec MS660 from HL Supply and it was almost complete (a couple small items not worth mentioning) I added a few OEM as recommended by some builders (wrist pin bearing, circlips, decomp, etc) and took my time with it.
I tested the unit for pressure/vacuum in the crankcase and the fuel tank with a MV8500 as I built it (and re-checked it again in the middle of these issues). Used 'Three Bond" for the case and cylinder in building it (and god help me IF I ever need to get them apart, <g>)
Time came to get 'er done, and took it outside to start it. I put 40:1 fuel mix in it and knew that it would be hard the first time.The fuel tank cap was leaking from places I didn't even know that it could so another one from HL fixed that.
I've now tried on several days stretching over a month now. No matter how I try (and even used a small amount of brake cleaner or ether) to start it, I either get nothing, a spudder or two and then nothing. A sputter and then a series of pulls with an occasional 'kickback' (what I call it cause it just will not go any further, and yes I've tried to start it without the de-comp just to see if that was it, but this 'kickback' is WAY harder than just no de-comp. BTW, I used the OEM husky de-comp in it to avoid issues. I "think" that I am using the choke correctly and have tried it in almost every possible combination possible. Once I did flood it and opened everything up (plug, muffler, opened up the throttle) and let it dry for a few days
I put a true WJ-76 Walbro Carburetor and same thing. Put another coil from HL on it, same thing.
Any ideas, I'll be happy to explain anything I confused you with and/or tell you anything that I did or didn't do due to my newbe position.
Ewing in backwater Oklahoma
I am new to your forum and sort of new to chainsaws, so (IF it is possible) be gentle with me (or whip my arsk if it is needed) but whatever it takes, I'd like to get some input with my issue.
For background, I've had a Echo CS-590 for about a year and used it some felling trees and a little milling with a PantherMill2. I didn't want to only have one saw (just in case) and the Echo was at its limit in what I was doing (or maybe I'm in just too big of a hurry).
I tried my best to read everything that I could find (but there is so much stuff out there, IS it really possible to read it all?) I watched lots of good and not so good youtube videos.
Bought a FarmerTec MS660 from HL Supply and it was almost complete (a couple small items not worth mentioning) I added a few OEM as recommended by some builders (wrist pin bearing, circlips, decomp, etc) and took my time with it.
I tested the unit for pressure/vacuum in the crankcase and the fuel tank with a MV8500 as I built it (and re-checked it again in the middle of these issues). Used 'Three Bond" for the case and cylinder in building it (and god help me IF I ever need to get them apart, <g>)
Time came to get 'er done, and took it outside to start it. I put 40:1 fuel mix in it and knew that it would be hard the first time.The fuel tank cap was leaking from places I didn't even know that it could so another one from HL fixed that.
I've now tried on several days stretching over a month now. No matter how I try (and even used a small amount of brake cleaner or ether) to start it, I either get nothing, a spudder or two and then nothing. A sputter and then a series of pulls with an occasional 'kickback' (what I call it cause it just will not go any further, and yes I've tried to start it without the de-comp just to see if that was it, but this 'kickback' is WAY harder than just no de-comp. BTW, I used the OEM husky de-comp in it to avoid issues. I "think" that I am using the choke correctly and have tried it in almost every possible combination possible. Once I did flood it and opened everything up (plug, muffler, opened up the throttle) and let it dry for a few days
I put a true WJ-76 Walbro Carburetor and same thing. Put another coil from HL on it, same thing.
Any ideas, I'll be happy to explain anything I confused you with and/or tell you anything that I did or didn't do due to my newbe position.
Ewing in backwater Oklahoma