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Weed eater wont stay running

After pumping gas ball with chke on will run for only short time

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Here are a few things to check, that are solutions for your symptoms. Check, then clean or replace:

  • Fuel Filter - located in the fuel tank
  • Spark Arrestor - at muffler
  • Spark Plug
  • Carburetor - may need rebuild kit?
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Sounds like the choke is still on. When you start it, then cut the choke off. That'll let it continue to run. (assuming you have good gas in it)

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Anonymous

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SOURCE: cub cadet weed eater wont stay running

air vent in gas cap pluged, push a pin through it

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Kerry Degrand

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  • Posted on Jul 25, 2009

SOURCE: gas weed eater pull cord wont retract after pulling cord

remove the cover and the screw holding the recoil down, turning the pulley ccw should release the spring then wind rope around pulley and (hopefully yours has the slot in it) wind in the direction of the pulley teeth then, holding rope in slot put back on spring and wind cw till almost tight, and install screw. Usually you can do this without taking rope handle off. sometimes you have to remove handle. look at spring end in the middle and make sure its not broke as long as you have it apart. Its a easy fix.
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Anonymous

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  • Posted on May 11, 2010

SOURCE: weed eater bogs down

Under what conditions does it bog down? When it just idles? Cold or hot? When you give it gas? When you try to cut?

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Jay Finke

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  • Posted on May 26, 2010

SOURCE: Husqavarna 125L E TEC weed eater won't stay running

CHECK THE SCREEN ON OUTPUT OF THE MUFFLER. ITS CALLED A SPARK ARRESTOR, THESE GET OIL FOULED AND MAKE EM A BEAR TO RUN . CLEAN IT UP AND SHE WILL RUN LIKE A CHAMP, THE CARB MIGHT NEED REBUILDING ,FUEL FILTER AND A SPARK PLUG IS THE FIRST THING TO REPLACE .. IF'N I WAS ANY HELP VOTE FOR ME ...THANKS.. JAY

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Curtis Sewell

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  • Posted on Oct 12, 2010

SOURCE: Weed eater te 475 runs for a few seconds and then

Sounds like you will need to clean the carburetor or replace your carburetor internal rubber parts like the diaphgram and O rings.
Be sure to use compressed air to blow out all the fuel and air passages.
Be careful when blowing out the passages, because there are sometimes small rubber type seats in the bottom of some of the passages.
Sometimes you can get by with priming the carburetor or using starting fluid and letting it run a few times like that and it will flush the gunk out of the jets,but most of the time you will need to rebuild the carburetor.
Keep in mind that the float for the carburetor must be level when you go to reassemble the carburetor or follow the instrucitons you get with the carburetor kit.
If the mower/weedeater is over a year old, then I also recommend that you buy and install a new carburetor repair kit,because the diaphragm will get hard and that will cause it to be hard to crank.
When you clean your carburetor and remove the jet screws, you will first need to seat the jet screws.
But before you seat the jet screws count the number of turns it takes to seat the jet screws from their original position.
Be sure to mark the turns down on a piece of paper.
That way when you put the jets back in, you know to seat them first and then turn them back out to their orginal position before you started.
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