Frustrating hda199

[davidwyby]

I feel for you. I love my 2139 when it runs right but since I’ve had it that has been rare. :-(

I was gonna suggest some silicone spray lube.

Evaporations cools...manifold on my VW gets really cold. Can you duct some hot air towards the carb?

 

[Funky sawman]

I've got the winter hot air shutter open. Problem is the saw is hard to keep running until it warms up enough to not stick. When it's sticking, the saw is running very lean, even to the point of backing out both high and low jets a full turn just to keep it running

 

[tree monkey]

Holy crap! I just realized its you Scott! How you doing you ole fart?

still kicking

 

[Funky sawman]

still kicking

Heck yea, love it!

 

[XP_Slinger]

I don’t have a spare 199, sorry man. I swear I had one kickin around, not sure where it ran off to.

 

[Funky sawman]

Might be sending this saw down the road. Screwed with the carb again today, checked throttle plate, all was well. Went out cutten some wood, then rested for 3 hrs and went back at it, well guess what, throttle was sticking before I even started it up!
Pissed off, I called husqvarna on the backordered status of that zama and it looks like sometime next month!

 

[davidwyby]

I wonder if it’s something to do with the expansion rate of aluminum vs. throttle plate and shaft.
I’d probably take it apart and clean/polish/lube everything...

 

[Funky sawman]

This morning it was in the crummy getting pre warmed, ran perfect right out of the gate. The lunch time episode it sat outside at 38degrees and slight rain.

 

[XP_Slinger]

Not to long ago a guy could get an HDA 198 for around $40. Not sure how prices are looking today, @Onan18 would know.

 

[huskyboy]

https://www.ebay.com/p/10015606805 This is the cheapest one I could find on eBay (zama).

 

[XP_Slinger]

Chinesium...I’ve never tried them. Do they run ok Mason?

 

[huskyboy]

Chinesium...I’ve never tried them. Do they run ok Mason?
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Never bought one. Matt had one on a ported 359 and it seemed to be ok when I tested it. Me? I would just spend the extra $ and get the 198 walbro and be done with it.

 

[huskyboy]

Oops, didn’t realize the other one was stens not zama. I tried posting the link to this one but it keeps redirecting to the damn stens carb. If you type it into ebay it should come up.

 

[Onan18]

Not to long ago a guy could get an HDA 198 for around $40. Not sure how prices are looking today, @Onan18 would know.

Last year Rotary was set up to be a direct distributor for Walbro. This year Husqvarna put a propriatary lock on the HDA-198 and the HDA-191 that Walbro could only sell it to them. They are available from Husqvarna but are ~$110.00 plus tax as of 12/20

 

[davidwyby]

@Benwa might have some of them carbys.

It never gets cold here, wanna trade carbs?

 

[huskyboy]

https://sleequipment.com/husqvarna-genuine-part-503281815-carburetor-hda-198.html This was the cheapest place I could find for HDA-198.

 

[Funky sawman]

48 degrees F today, saw sat outside all morning then I used it for cutting some fence posts. Ran perfect, no sticking, did alot of piss revving just to see if it would stick..

 

[Mattyo]

I have not found a single "replacement" carb that actually has a large venturi like the el42. It says its a replacement for el42....but really its just a replacement for el32...which is the size carb stock on a 350.

Id stick with the oem el42 from jacks.

Oh btw....very rare do they have stuff in stock