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M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
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Been tuning my saws for 30+ years and sometimes they run just great for years and then this one decides to give me grief.
It's my newest 346XP - has run great for about 9 months with the usual maintenance, but now when it gets hot out (97* today, triple digits for the next three days projected) the ceramic vent on the gas tank leaks gas and it gets hard to start after it has run for half a takedown. And no matter how I try to adjust the carb, reclean the air filter, make sure the gas filter is clean, check that the impulse tube/gas line are not softening and kinking, it remains impossible to start. So I swear a bit, and go to my backup saw, and then as we are ready to head home from the job and the saw is nice and cool I'll pick it up and it fires right up and runs great.
What should I be looking for? Too new to be bad crank seals I'd think...(the bad crank is the guy running the saw when it gets tempramental).
Been tuning my saws for 30+ years and sometimes they run just great for years and then this one decides to give me grief.
It's my newest 346XP - has run great for about 9 months with the usual maintenance, but now when it gets hot out (97* today, triple digits for the next three days projected) the ceramic vent on the gas tank leaks gas and it gets hard to start after it has run for half a takedown. And no matter how I try to adjust the carb, reclean the air filter, make sure the gas filter is clean, check that the impulse tube/gas line are not softening and kinking, it remains impossible to start. So I swear a bit, and go to my backup saw, and then as we are ready to head home from the job and the saw is nice and cool I'll pick it up and it fires right up and runs great.
What should I be looking for? Too new to be bad crank seals I'd think...(the bad crank is the guy running the saw when it gets tempramental).