Recent content by scmoose

I felt it did. Little bit of carbon but it cleaned off fine. There is a small hole, not through in the top center of it, but looking at pictures that's part of the casting.

I've already brought it to one small engine guy, who also came up with nothing. I did stop him short of tearing it completely apart want to avoid higher service fees than what the unit is worth. Still cost me 50.00 for him not to be able to figure it out, he had it for 3 weeks, not that he...

Just looked at the flywheel magnets, no discernable damage or loose magnets.

I set the gap with a business card. I have removed the Amazon coil, that exhibited the same exact symptoms as the OEM coil and returned it since I didn't feel that was the issue since it did the same exact thing.

Yes, the coil came with its own plug lead attached. I've run without air filter and muffler. I haven't gravity fed. I wish I could post a video here to show what it sounds like when running. I will pull plug and post a picture of it.

Yes, several tanks of fresh fuel, premix, and self-mix. I didn't pay attention to the magnets on the flywheel other than rubbing a piece of scotch Brite over them. Ill remove the cover and look closer at them.

I'm at a loss with this trimmer. Sounds as though it has a miss, or backfire at WOT and will not reach top speed. Starts and idles fine. Started when my son bought the unit, ran fine for a day, he stopped it, replaced cutting string on the head, when he restarted the unit is when it showed this...