Post by aprules2 on Jul 17, 2017 18:46:46 GMT -5
Hi Everyone
I have a Homelite XL UT-105074, I picked it up as a non running saw. I cleaned the points and changed the fuel filter and it ran like a new saw. But it didn't oil. So I took the case apart again and this time I decided to do it right, I bought a new air filter, fuel lines, and a duck bill valve. I cleaned the saw case, cleaned the muffler out, scrubbed all the crud off the motor its self, even filled the cylinder with seafoam and let it soak over night. Then I replaced all the fuel and air lines, the duck bill valve in the oil tank, and I cut up a little piece of old air filter and wedged it between the 2 tanks just like Homelite did. Then I drained the seafoam, and rinsed the cylinder with brake clean, then squirted a little 2 cycle oil into the bore just to lubricate it and spun the engine by hand. Then finished my reassembly. I bought a gallon of super, and synthetic 2 cycle mix and mixed the oil 32:1 like Homelite said. The saw was very hard to start but once it did it ran ok but wouldnt idle, but restarted easily. So I tried the carb adjustment outlined on here, now it runs horrible.... Its difficult to restart, when I adjust the idle screw to a point where I can get it to idle it bogs and stalls as soon as I hit the throttle, then its nearly impossible to start. It seems to want the mixture set at around 3/4 of a turn out maybe less, at 1 turn out it wont idle. When I first got it I used the gas I had around for hte weed whacker to get it running that was a 50:1 mix, do you think it could be my gas mix causing the trouble?
I have a Homelite XL UT-105074, I picked it up as a non running saw. I cleaned the points and changed the fuel filter and it ran like a new saw. But it didn't oil. So I took the case apart again and this time I decided to do it right, I bought a new air filter, fuel lines, and a duck bill valve. I cleaned the saw case, cleaned the muffler out, scrubbed all the crud off the motor its self, even filled the cylinder with seafoam and let it soak over night. Then I replaced all the fuel and air lines, the duck bill valve in the oil tank, and I cut up a little piece of old air filter and wedged it between the 2 tanks just like Homelite did. Then I drained the seafoam, and rinsed the cylinder with brake clean, then squirted a little 2 cycle oil into the bore just to lubricate it and spun the engine by hand. Then finished my reassembly. I bought a gallon of super, and synthetic 2 cycle mix and mixed the oil 32:1 like Homelite said. The saw was very hard to start but once it did it ran ok but wouldnt idle, but restarted easily. So I tried the carb adjustment outlined on here, now it runs horrible.... Its difficult to restart, when I adjust the idle screw to a point where I can get it to idle it bogs and stalls as soon as I hit the throttle, then its nearly impossible to start. It seems to want the mixture set at around 3/4 of a turn out maybe less, at 1 turn out it wont idle. When I first got it I used the gas I had around for hte weed whacker to get it running that was a 50:1 mix, do you think it could be my gas mix causing the trouble?
