Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 08:07:11 -0800, the renowned
wrote:

On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 23:45:34 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

Hi, guys:-

I have a relativley new Husqvarna 130BT 29.5 cc 2-stroke backpack
leaf blower and it has a stalling problem- runs for some time
(maybe 30 seconds or maybe 5 minutes) then slows down and (usually)
stalls or sometimes speeds up again. It pretty much restarts
immediately with a pull. Fresh gas properly mixed with 2-stroke oil
50:1 as recommended.

Cleaned the gasoline pickup, tried loosening the gas cap in case the
vent was plugged.

Any ideas?

http://images.lowes.com/product/conv...88505029lg.jpg

There's apparently no manual choke (the usual primer bulb) but a
lever that has open and closed on it- it really only runs
continuously in one position (and the compression seems to be gone
in other position). The manual (such as it is- it covers three
models) is silent on what should be done with it.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
I had this problem twice occuring to a 4 stroke Ryobi weed eater. The
problem was in the carb. In both cases I carefully took apart and
cleaned the carb using the carb cleaner that comes in a spray can and
has that litle red tube that is really good for blasting the cleaner
through tiny passages. When I looked at the carb internals I could
not see where or what the contamination was except that there was a
sort of brownish residue coating various parts of the internals. All
I know for sure is that in both cases the thing would start losing
power and then die. I could do the restart thing a few times but
then the engines would only idle, and would die as soon as I pulled
the throttle trigger.
Eric
Eric

Thanks, Eric & Larry-

I was afraid of that. Bad memories from working on lawnmowers. I'll
take the carb apart and blast it with carb cleaner, prob next weekend.
New carbs are too pricey to consider ($130+ with shipping).

Does it pump gas through the black hose (with filter attached) and
return unused fuel through the clear hose that's just hanging in the
tank?



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

That's the way most of them work . I've had pretty good luck finding
replacement carbs on ebay for my small engines at around 20 bucks or so .
Looked for yours , found only complete blower units and a couple of carb
kits plus some misc parts .
Before I took anything apart though I'd run some seafoam or B12 chemtool
thru it . Sounds to me like intermittent plugging from gunk getting loose in
the passages .
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Snag