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Homelite weed eater won't run with choke off, can u help?

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  • Posted on Oct 12, 2010
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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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steve

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  • Posted on Jun 02, 2009

SOURCE: weed eater wont start,put straight gas in it.

if you didn't mix any oil with the fuel,you probally burnt the piston and cylinder up.the only to find out if you did is to pull the muffler off and look inside the cylinder and see if there are any scoring on the piston.if there is you need to replace the piston and cylinder assembly.most cost $100.00 or more.usually they are not worth repairing.i know this is not good news but i hope this helped,let me know.................

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 25, 2009

SOURCE: poulan ppb 250 weed eater, only runs with choke on,

HOW IS YOUR FUEL LINES. SOUNDS LIKE IT MAY HAVE A AIR LEAK

Anonymous

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  • Posted on May 31, 2010

SOURCE: Ryobi weed eater runs at full choke, but stalls

does it blow out alot of blue or dark exhaust? if so adjust screw on carberator as it maybe be running rich, if this doesnt work have the switch checked for malfunctioning

Rich Florenzen

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  • Posted on Jun 19, 2010

SOURCE: will run but when given gas it chokes down

adjust the choke

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