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Thank you very much. Will Amazon it.

Well I tore it down and the only possible leak I found was the glue joint between the cylinder and the block. There was oil/fine sawdust across the block where sealer was thin. Having a hard time finding procedure to clean old glue/RTV and redo it. Was going to just make a gasket like it should...

If you have a complete old one gasket material is advalable at auto parts stores. A piece of gasket Lightly pounded on the surface to make cutting lines works too.

Thank you everyone ! I figured it was an air leak thinning the mixture but didn't know where the trouble points were. Lots of talk about JB weld and found something much better. POR 15 makes a body putty in a tube that air drys hard as a rock and even sticks to plastic fuel tanks. So hard you...

Thank you I'll go through it.

I should add it's not a new saw but has relatively low hours and never seen ethanol fuel. Not rode hard and put away wet. Thanks

Help, my Stihl MS271 won't idle and dies at idle. New Carb, fuel filter, cleaned muffler,no ethanol fuel only, tried adjusting. Rebuilt the original Carb. and tried that with no luck and exactly the same outcome as the new carb. No matter what we do it simply dies when it goes back to idle. What...