Welcome to Married With Small Engines! We repair thousands of pieces of equipment every year! Chainsaws, trimmers, lawn tractors, zero turns and MUCH MORE! We thought it would be fun to bring you along for the ride! This channel will mainly focus on diagnostics, failure analysis, and repairing customer equipment. There will be some how-to content. We will show you THE GOOD , THE BAD, and THE UGLY of this line of work.
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I have an 038 magnum it was doing the same thing the other day when I was cutting wood I clean the air filter it was clogged up some which causes it to flood out as their isn't enough air to gas ratio . After fixing the problem i let the chainsaw sit for an hour it fired right up
Only prob I've had with my farm boss ms260 the shear key cast into the fly wheel which sets the ignition timing had twisted sheared ever so slightly prob my fault I ran it at really high revs for a while and I put a longer bar and more aggressive chain on it than it was originally supposed to have one I fixed that not a problem one I always runs Stihl genuine lube
Ps I owe a ms 250 Stihl chainsaw I agree with you my chainsaw always was hard to pull when starting up brand new and still having the same problem never had anyone missed with the carburetor
10:34 I run summer filters on all my saws in the winter time. They are easier to clean and reuse year-round. But I live in southwestern Montana and 99% of the year it is very dry, even in winter.
Great detail in your videos. I’ve been around chainsaws for almost 50 years and thought there’s not much I could learn but watching your repair videos is like a breath of fresh air.
Excellent presentation. Very methodical. I am a small engine technician in the UK working on lots of main brands of horticultural machines and the first person to blame is the owner / operator in all cases. It's their machine and it is their problem. I've had customers ranting and raving that the machine is junk and they either want their money back or the machine fixed free of charge under warranty. But it invariably is something that they are doing or have done. manufacturers spend a lot of time and money designing machines and it's very rare that the machine fails without the assistance of a bodging owner or someone that has been lent a machine. I have a wealth of stories of things that owners / users do to machines. Love from the UK.
Hard to start is the understatement of the year. If you get it running it’s great. I have done proper maintenance premium fuel, simply does not want to start.
great repair video, nice to see the thorough going over, PS: that made in Germany for that age might be right, after all the name is German sounding, so it's most likely USA took it over (hostile takeover), and this was a last model with the old name before new production started.
I have a old old David Bradley saw its a monster with push oiler b7g 24inch bar, id like to get it made pretty to make a shelf piece but running, it ran the last time used. Very loud but a remembrance from the past
Any pointers for those with arm to shoulder issues for easier starting. Im considering using a dc plain starter and modify a area or possubly a relief valve for less compression and once started close the valve
i had an old sears eager one lawnmower that sob wo so hard to start it would rip the flesh from the fingers the flat area below the handle on the chainsaw is for your foot to stand on it
What a beautiful place you have. You're living the good life! I love the little dinosaurs. I would love to wake up to the sound of a rooster crowing. That Troy-Bilt Horse is an amazing machine. Thanks for that great video's!
The tools you use for fuel line removal, what are they called or where can they be found. The one for removal fuel lines from carb would be really handy. I've tried looking and don't see them. The other for digging out fuel filter looks like it could be homemade. Like your concise, well documented analysis and repairs!
What a brilliant teacher, step by step old fashion fault finding procedure and then an apology for not checking the 'carby' well done and especially the fact it's from a 'woman' mechanic! Well done☆☆☆☆☆
So I’ve been watching a lot of your videos and when I pulled out my saw today I realized I was the bad customer you have with all the extremely dirty saws. 😂. Needless to say I spent a good 2 hours scrubbing it clean.
not defending the customer but my mower was borrowed and they guy put bad gas (with water) in it and it took me a while to figure it out. I could almost bet this person loaned it to a son or someone and they wanted to "fix" it and had no idea what they were doing. I'm shocked it ran at all; the way it was. I would have loved to see, (after all that) how it was supposed to start and run. At least you figured it out in the end!
I've been watching a lot of your videos and appreciate you showing your techniques to repair and test the saws. I know in one video you showed a carb adjusting screwdriver socket combination tool. I didn't get the part number. I have gone to the Stihl website and can't find it or the fuel line tool. I would appreciate it very much if you would show all the tools and where they can be purchased. Amazon and Ebay don't have them. I bought a set off of Amazon and they have everything except the one I need.
good video, and you even remembered to check the plug gap, for others, it isn't always the case the xx plug is gapped correctly (for the engine you are putting it in), and it also could have been dropped in transport, affecting the gap.
