Lets look for clues! This Poulan chainsaw was dropped off with no other information than "It won"t start". Everything you see while doing a repair is there for a reason. Lets piece it together! #smallenginerepair
Great info, same guy that tries cooking his pork and sauerkraut in the dishwasher and complains. I was taught , be polite, ask questions and learn. But stick up for myself. Have a great new year.
Admittedly, I bought the Chineseiam carb kit from Amazon for $3.49. Ran like this saw did. So I bought a NGK spark plug and checked the primer bulb flow. It was backwards. My fault. I switched the primer bulb lines and now it runs great. Thanks for a great video.
Nice video ! I really enjoyed watching your video and I learn a lot of stuff ! I'm a car mechanic for 15 years and began to repair small engine at home for family and friends and really enjoyed it. Thank you
Thoroughly enjoyed it! Nice job with the Play by Play voiceover, saves a lot of editing at times. I had a Chineseum kit company approach me to promote their products. Now a year later our local Deere/Toro dealer is using their parts. I know times are tough and availability can be sketchy at best, but from a OE dealer shop? Just ain’t right. Bless’ns for a Happy New Year, Tedd
We get our Stihl parts from our local Deere/Stihl dealer and some pieces take forever. I don't like using chinesium parts but sometimes you have to just save weeks of back order time. Customers want their equipment returned in a timely manner.
I bought a craftsman saw for $20 it looked like new and had compression. Took it home, same thing, fuel lines replaced and installed wrong. Turned out to be a decent spare saw.
I liked the verbal narrative being separate - that kept the focus on the big picture. Didn’t get lost in the details. I also liked that the camera was in a fixed spot. All the other videos I’ve watched have been too much the back of the hand rather than the machine.
Thanks. I couldn't change the filming angle if I wanted. These videos are all actual repairs. My employer allows me to hang the camera up there but he'd be upset if I were messing around "making videos" while on the clock. Even if he let me narrate videos, the background noise can be terrible. You wouldn't believe how much time I spend editing out those noises so you only hear what you do now. Thanks for watching!
Poulan, means Pull On and On and On........... How often do you use a tach to set speeds on 2 strokes? I know after years we can do it by ear and set it to just about 4 stroking but I'm curious as I always use a tach on high dollar saws for fear of over-revving them. Thanks, great vid!
Carb being way out of tune was the non-running issue with the transitional Poulan Micro-25 I picked up on Evil Bay. Typically I fix saws myself, but this time I wasn't in the mood. I looked the saw over to make sure it wasn't a basket case, and sent it to my buddy, Leon Crouch out in Oregon. Turns out the carb was seriously out of tune.
The sad part is there is another popular youtuber that works on small engines and pushes that you replace the carb with a cheap aftermarket carb anytime you have to rebuild/clean a carb; because, it's not worth your time when you can get a cheap replacement for about the same price as a rebuild kit.
My policy is that if it primes then I rebuild it. If it won't prime there is a good chance labor costs could become excessive. The carb has to come off either way. Opening it up and "rebuilding" it only adds a few minutes. Maybe they don't know carbs well enough to comfortably rebuild one?
My early experience with saws included the chain on backwards thng. Then it is pretty much the pearly gates for the sprocket, right or wrong? Not a lot of experience with cheap replacement carbs. I'd rather rebuild my old one. Unless it is really corroded up inside from being improperly stored & ethanol corrosion damage generally have good success. But most shops anymore don't want to mess with tedious carburetor rebuilds while the phone is ringing, customer at the counter & delivery driver at the back door, and yeah I get it.
I have a brand new Poulan chainsaw I got from menards that runs this way out of the box. So hard to get stated it would be easier to cut the tree by hand and when I finally do get it running it dies in 5-10mins.
The problem with big box store purchases is that you don't get a factory trained tech prepping the saw for you. Your saw probably just needs a carb adjustment.
Great video. Im trying to get a similar craftsmen 40 cc running right. It starts and idles well. But under load it starts bogging and dies. Idles really well but the rest is no good. Took the muffler off today and ran it and it ran way better. Screamed and ran great but still not perfect put it back in and back to crap. I have new plugs otw. Plug is a champion and pretty fouled so iv cleaned it but it’s still old. Iv also cleaned the air filter. Any ideas ?
@@TheGreasyShopRag I looked at the muffler and didn’t see a screen. Seems like a real small opening exit for a muffler. I’ll look again for a screen but didn’t see one.
@@TheGreasyShopRag I found another video showing how the muffler should split and screen and arresttor inside ! Thanks for the tip buddy. I’ll open it up today Judging by the condition the saw was in when I got it have a feeling the screen gonna be clogged up.
@@TheGreasyShopRag took it apart and man the screen is not bad at all. Put it back together and it kind of ran better. Idles well. Now I noticed after warming up and the longer it’s running it will eventually dies even at idle. So something with getting hot
Sir u need to primer it when you take a primer bulb off then put another to start it you need to primer it if not it will turn off is not the saw straight up freedom of speech speech on this saw it's you
I Had a Service Order Today Written Up By The Front Desk A TS-420 The Only Thing It Said Is It’s Temperamental 😂😂😳😳😳😂😩 I Asked The Front Desk How Do You Fix Temperamental 😂
They usually need a carb adjustment fresh out of the box. If its never been adjusted, that might be all the problem is. Of course you need a special tool.
I'm an equal opportunity slammer. This is an actual repair done on the clock at work. Not all days at work are sunshine and roses and theres a fair chance something else was on my mind. Thanks for watching!
They are junk kits and waste of money Seems every spark plug last a week and you spend a hour trying to get carb adjusted properly if ever Kiting the oem is only way to do it
I got one of these and it's been ok so far but I e got an issue that I just can't figure out. I used it last week no problem but I rinsed it off a little with the hose and set it in the shed and when I pulled it out a week later to use it, there was a little rust on the clutch and drum and it would not run like it's supposed to. For whatever reason the chain kept getting super hot so I thought that maybe the drum and clutch was a problem so I bought a new clutch and drum and installed it only to find out it's still getting hot and shutting off. I examined the bar to make sure that it wasn't damaged that would cause friction from the chain but the bar was fine. So now I'm left wondering why it keeps shutting down and why the chain gets super hot???? Any suggestions anyone? I thought at first that maybe it was the oil that was the culprit but figured out that the bar had plenty of oil on it and there's no way that the chain is getting hot from no lubrication. It's driving me nuts because last week it work fine.
@@TheGreasyShopRag no. I even took it apart to make sure there was no debris in it and there was a little bit I cleaned it, lubricated it, assembled it with no difference.
@@TheGreasyShopRagthe choke has three positions. I'll start in the choke position long enough for it to shut off. Then in the middle position it runs for a few seconds unless I hit the throttle and then it'll run for about 20 seconds and shut off , meanwhile the chain is getting so hot that it can't be touched!! I look at the bar and oil is running off the bar so I know it's lubricated. It's crazy that this just all of a sudden start doing this!!
No offense dude but if that were my chainsaw and I saw you slamming it around like that, you wouldn't have to worry about being frustrated with my shit anymore!! You may be good at what you do, but being a professional means you keep a cool head under frustration and not slam people stuff around. Just my two cents. And I get it because I just went through a very frustrating set with this exact same chainsaw but one thing I didn't do was slam it down and slam it around. This saw cost me a lot of money and I don't want to have to buy a new one.
I can't argue with you about your frustration and professionalism statements but I can assure you I never damaged someones equipment out of frustration. Take note of how much noise is made when turning the saw over like here at 8:50 I encourage you to watch my video describing the bench. I think you'll better understand that any sound you hear from slamming a saw on the bench is greatly magnified. Thanks for your input and thanks for watching!