Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

Got extra early start on trimming and mowing yesterday than Mrs. and I went for nice long motorcycle ride,by the time we got home stars were out and my butt was sore.

Raining most of day soooo to town for goodies than some puttering rest of the day.

 

[ronjhall]

Looks like the carb is kaput and I'll have to pony up for a new one ... could be worse I guess.

Back in my younger days I raced Go-Karts. They all used pumper carburetors. It is very important to get the diaphragm, needle valve and valves in the proper order and position. Otherwise you end up pumping gas straight into crankcase. There are video's for both Walbro and Tillotson Carbs on U-tube.

 

[Larro Darro]

The Appalachians were settled by Scots-English "Border Lander's" and brought a long history of civil wars, and of being able to trust no one but kin with them, along with spirits making and Celtic music. Due to the remoteness of the Appalachian mountains and the less than friendly outlook on strangers and ideas from outside, they lived largely in isolation for two centuries until the 1930's or so. They even maintained a lot of the speech and word usage that was common in their homelands at the time they emigrated.

They are still considered Border Lander's politically and socially today by those who study such things.

At least two of my four grandparents were from up that way. They {and their brothers and sisters} used some words you only hear from Appalachian folks. Most of the old timers still are pretty clannish. They will refer to someone who moved down here 40 years ago as "that new fellow."

 

[300UGUY]

Took a friend of mine to a job interview. The guy has had some problems, and asked me for a ride, so I figured why not? Then off to help my wife out for a bit, then back home. I wanted to do some outside work, but the humidity is terrible. Gonna wait a bit!

 

[300UGUY]

At least two of my four grandparents were from up that way. They {and their brothers and sisters} used some words you only hear from Appalachian folks. Most of the old timers still are pretty clannish. They will refer to someone who moved down here 40 years ago as "that new fellow."

Michigan got a lot of folks from Appalachia during and after WW2. When I was growing up, I learned to distinguish people from different areas by their accent. I think it is harder now, folks watch tv, and so forth, the speech has become more uniform. I do remember as a teenager, a friends dad asking me "where you from" He was surprised that I was from Michigan, some members of my family having been here since 1813. He was from a area that didn't even have a road!! They had to walk a mile or so, down a creek bed. Before they came north, they didn't have a telephone or indoor plumbing, and this was in the 60's.

 

[rswyan]

76.9F and cloudy ... just had a huge downpour ... appears the local weather station (Davis Instruments 6152 Vantage Pro 2) may down or offline, as it showing no rainfall for the day ... he's less than a mile away, hard to imagine that it missed him but I guess anything is possible.

Looks like we'll have a couple of dry days and then more thunderstorms ...

Looks like it will be inside work for the rest of the day.

 

[rswyan]

RS, try an o-ring under the air cleaner screw. Might keep it tight.

Good idea :thumbsup:

If nothing else, it looks like I have enough access and room on the backside of the threaded piece of the housing that the screw goes into that I should be able to get a speed nut in there.

I really need to pull the hydraulic cylinder, get some seals/o-rings and fix the leak ... otherwise keeping it fed with hydraulic fluid is gonna get expensive. Same deal with the valve cover.

Took a crack at upholstery on the RTV yesterday, starting with the seat back. Found some nice cabinet plywood in the scrap pile, and not a hint of termites under the tarps this time. Insecticide soaking the ground must still be working. Used the old pieces for patterns, though some fudging was needed as not all the pieces were whole (some were mostly hole . Even though the vinyl I purchased is about twice as thick as the original stuff, it still cut easily and was no problem to sew. At least the needle punched easily through the material; keeping it going down the seam lines I'd inked was another matter entirely. I now have a whole new respect for all those seamstresses out there that do this sort of thing at a hundred miles an hour! Things were going along nicely until the bobbin ran out, and even though I managed to wind another, it took me an hour to discover I'd missed a hole when I'd restrung the needle thread, almost causing me to give up for the day. In the process I also discovered that my sewing box has gone missing as well, and a top-to-bottom search of the house still left me empty handed. Talk about feeling senile, the threading error was right in front of my nose, and I've seen that box within the last week or so. Even have some vague memory of putting it someplace "safe" where "I'll be sure to find it". Sheesh.

Anyway, the cover came out better than I thought it would, though it's just a bit looser than I'd like. Sure looks nicer than what was there! Today I'll start in on the bottom part of the seat. No patterns this time, as someone replaced the factory one with a piece of canvas years ago. I think I learned enough on the first one to make some patterns of my own, but we shall see.

Sounds like quite the adventure ...

Sewing (with a machine) is something that I really wish I had learned how to do ... could be a very handy skill.

I think we've got three or four sewing machines here - including a Kenmore serger I bought for the woman, two from our respective mothers, and a very old Singer that was my Grandma's - pedal-operated originally, converted to electric ... still have the treadle stand for it ... looks like kinda like this:

... wife doesn't seem too inclined to use any of them

 

[rswyan]

Similar thing happened to me when I rebuilt the carb on the old chainsaw, RS. Except mine was spitting back through the air cleaner. Turns out I'd left out one of the gaskets in the stack that is built up on one end of the carb. Found that out by closely (as in with a magnifying glass) looking at the diagram the dealer was kind enough to provide with the gasket kit. All the gaskets in the stack, and I think there were three of them, are the same size on the outside, but all have subtle differences on where holes are located to allow fuel to pass. Those darn holes have to be oriented properly, and the gaskets assembled in the correct order, or fuel goes everywhere it's not supposed to. And yes, I'd carefully disassembled the original, and taken photos, but I wasn't careful enough.

Might merit a look ... I still have the old gaskets/diaphragms, which are stuck together ... I guess it's possible that there could be something in the "sandwiches" that I missed ... but ...

I also have a PDF of the Walbro documentation for the carb (WT 45 A) - which includes a labeled, exploded-view ... problem is, that this particular carb comes in various versions, specific to the application it was going to be used on. So not everything listed in the diagram is applicable to the carb I have (for instance, the carb can come with a primer bulb ... or not ...)

Kinda the same deal with the rebuild kit (K10-WAT) ... lotsa "extra" stuff in there ... including gaskets and diaphragms. Probably fits more than one model.

The PDF does mention a small gauge (Walbro p/n 500-13) that is used to set the height of the lever that controls the needle ... that might worth exploring.

This an image of a carb off an FS40 ... which appears to be identical to the one I have:

Based on the above image, I do have it assembled correctly, with the gaskets and diaphragms in the proper order/orientation, with nothing missing or extra.

I also remember taking the carb with me to the dealer, and it was a good thing I did. It turned out, at least in this case, that Stihl used two different carbs on the same saw, so the parts man avoided having to guess.

Right :thumbsup:

Thinking about that old saw yesterday, I realized something I hadn't before, related to the sale. I put an ad in Craig's List, and a fellow that runs a small nursery and tree service responded. During our banter he let me know he'd had his saw stolen a few weeks before, and even though the thought never occurred to me at the time, now I realize he might have suspected that I was the thief! My saw came complete with case and extra chains, and started on the first pull, so that along with my otherwise sterling character resulted in the sale going through with no law enforcement involvement or blood shed. :laughing:

LOL ... good one.

 

[rswyan]

Back in my younger days I raced Go-Karts. They all used pumper carburetors. It is very important to get the diaphragm, needle valve and valves in the proper order and position. Otherwise you end up pumping gas straight into crankcase. There are video's for both Walbro and Tillotson Carbs on U-tube.

Ron,

Thanks - it's certainly worth a look ...

I'll see what I can dig up.

 

[rswyan]

Straight from the horse's mouth so to speak: