Sthil Commercial Line Trimmers with 4 Cycle engines (still require 50:1 fuel/oil mix) - any experience

[John0829]

John0829 and Keith

Nice to know the Sthil 4 cycle (gas and oil pre-mix) can at least tolerate one tank of straight fuel and keep on running without destroying the engine. I worry about that when I have help sometimes. I do keep my fuel cans marked well.


Keith (just kidding you ) at least you were sharp enough to blame the wife for filling the tank with straight fuel.
John admitted it was himself.
It took me 10 years of marriage to stop blaming the wife for her mistakes. Now after finally getting wiser I just say "yes dear it was my fault whats for dinner".

Best regards

My cans are well marked in LARGE letters but apparently I cannot read my own labels or writing . Blaming SWMBO, she will not pick up any gas powered equipment, to heavy, even some of the battery tools the weight is complained about. So she bought her own lightest weight tools she could find, so she has hers and I have mine and any screw up... it's all on me.

It took me longer than 10 years but I finally learned ALL mistakes are my mistakes... because I should have known my help was needed.

 

[ArlyA]

We have a dedicated can for mixed fuel that does not look like straight fuel cans. One of these.

 

[Mattmotors]

My take on a 4 stroke and still have to mix gas and oil, What's the point?

 

[ArlyA]

My take on a 4 stroke and still have to mix gas and oil, What's the point?

I believe they are getting more HP out of the fuel.

 

[dodge man]

If you don’t have a sump with oil, you have to mix oil with the fuel. Saws, weed eaters, pole saws etc end up at weird angles so an oil pick up and traditional sump won’t work.

 

[Will_C]

I too have a KM 130 that is 10-12 years old. Between the power paddle, pole saw, and trimmer attachments it gets 20-30 hours use a year. Had the filters and spark plug changed once and the valves adjusted. It has been trouble free.

 

[KeithT]

My cans are well marked in LARGE letters but apparently I cannot read my own labels or writing . Blaming SWMBO, she will not pick up any gas powered equipment, to heavy, even some of the battery tools the weight is complained about. So she bought her own lightest weight tools she could find, so she has hers and I have mine and any screw up... it's all on me.

It took me longer than 10 years but I finally learned ALL mistakes are my mistakes... because I should have known my help was needed.

This was all my fault for my refusal to write “mixed gas” on the Can that I have been using exclusively for 2+ decades for 2cycle fuel…. I was on the rider and wife ran the weed-eater out of fuel, re fueled, and got it started. I though wow. Good job there. She then ran it out again and I observed her grabbing the fuel container that is not mixed. I stopped what I was doing “whoa! That’s not mixed”. Went and got the proper container. Then it hit me

What did you use to re fuel earlier? . Yep. Non mixed

I tried to convince myself it was not running properly after that. But actually, it runs as good as new! Even all these years later.

 

[Richard001]

My take on a 4 stroke and still have to mix gas and oil, What's the point?

It took me about an hour of searching the internet to finally figure out how that engine is suppose to work. And even the authors of the info I found were not completely sure of how it works. Plus it appears that Sthil has had trouble with their plastic cam gear.

Richard

 

[Cycledude]

I have had one for 5+ years, not sure the model number but it’s been pretty much trouble free, the idle speed should be adjusted so it would idle slightly faster but I’m not sure how to adjust it and haven’t bothered to take it back to the dealer. It’s a little heavy but has plenty of power, I would like to put a Echo string trimmer head on it but so far haven’t done that either, the Stihl trimmer head is a big pain to put string in.

 

[TMGT]

Nothing wrong with Stihl but have you looked at Echo PAS, mainly the 2620? I went with Echo PAS266 years ago over the Stihl and have been very happy with them, pretty much have all Echo 2 strokes now except for a couple of chainsaws.

They have been very reliable with a good warranty (only needed it 1 time for a coil issue on a handheld blower).
Either way you'll have good equipment, just putting out another option.