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Default How do you "tune up" a hard-to-start Craftsman 18" chainsaw

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:50:07 -0400, Stormin Mormon wrote:

Make sure it's not a Champion brand plug. they had a run of defects.
I've bought Autolite, or NGK. If it fails to start, look at the spark
plug. Wet? Flooded.


Champion RCJ7Y. None of the stores carried that but they told me a Champion
CJ7Y (without the R) is the same thing so that's what I put in there.

The plug, when pulled out hot, is dry as a bone so I'm pretty sure flooding
isn't the culprit. I'm beginning to suspect either the plugged fuel filter
(I didn't know chain saws HAD a fuel filter) or the spark coils are bad.

Don't know how to test the coils though.