Recent content by corvairbob

thanks. and yes what i may do is take the coil off measure the holes and drill them the next size larger and retard it that way. much easier then locating a offset key. and i have porter cable battery tools and go figure they do not make the chainsaw for those batterys. darn darn darn. i may do...

ok update. i had my neighbor give this a try and i did not tell him my issue and sure enough it pulled out of his fingers the first pull. he did the 3 pumps and pulling maybe 5 times kindo of what the instructions on the saw say and the it started. and it ran good and idled just fine. so then i...

thanks and it did that. i first pulled the cord to get it up to compression and then pulled it. and nothing. the i did the same thing with 3 primer pumps and again and again and again and by the time i got to 12 pumps it did start but it pulled har every time and it pulled off my foot holding...

ok thanks that sounds about what i have going on with mine. but trying to figure out how to do a bit of a retard on the time with be a bit of a challenge for sure i may waller out the coil hols a bit and see it it helps.

thanks jeff. i will get the model of it and get the speck and manual and do some checking. it may be something mechanical going on. maybe a shear pin on the flywheel or maybe carbon in the exhaust? i will mess with it and see. may even be the coil is set to close and causing the what feels like...

thanks tomorrow when i stop over to that house i will see if i can get some photos and numbers. it may have a decomp valve on it. and that is how i started it also. i put my toe in the handle and hand on the top handle and gave that d-ring a tug and every time it pulled out of my hand. if that...

ok outside of getting hammered because i got a poulan pro chainsaw i have a question on starting it. it does start and seems to run out good and will set and idle good but when cold it pulls the rope out of my hands when i pull the start rope. i did it cold and then 3 primer pumps and so on...