Sorry if this is old news to those of you with more life experience. It's something that I've never heard of in my 76 years. Guess I haven't gotten out much.
My Stihl 94R went from running fine to barely running yesterday till it finished cutting the weeds along the creek banks. I removed and cleaned the filter, cleaned and gapped the little spark plug and scratched my head. It wouldn't even rev up at that point.
Mentioned this to my BIL last night and he said he had the same thing happen to his Echo trimmer. He took it to a shop for repair. They fixed it while he waited - less than 5 minutes. The fix was to remove the spark arrestor, zap it with a propane torch to burn off the carbon and that's all. He told me he's done his a few times since then. I did mine this morning and after putting the spark arrestor back in it ran like new.
It couldn't be more convenient. The only things that need to be removed are a single screw and the arrestor itself. Pull the screen out with a long-nosed pliers, grab the torch and you're done in no time.
My Stihl 94R went from running fine to barely running yesterday till it finished cutting the weeds along the creek banks. I removed and cleaned the filter, cleaned and gapped the little spark plug and scratched my head. It wouldn't even rev up at that point.
Mentioned this to my BIL last night and he said he had the same thing happen to his Echo trimmer. He took it to a shop for repair. They fixed it while he waited - less than 5 minutes. The fix was to remove the spark arrestor, zap it with a propane torch to burn off the carbon and that's all. He told me he's done his a few times since then. I did mine this morning and after putting the spark arrestor back in it ran like new.
It couldn't be more convenient. The only things that need to be removed are a single screw and the arrestor itself. Pull the screen out with a long-nosed pliers, grab the torch and you're done in no time.
