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Stihl ms170 chainsaw will not start
Check the exhaust for insect clogging it. kt
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Stihl ms170 chainsaw will not start
My chain saw is a Shindaiwa. It will not crack if has weak gas or gets flooded. If it were my chain saw I would drain out all gas and buy new gas and new oil mix if I had confidence in the spark being there. Check and see if you have any water in the gas. Even fresh gas could. Never had any problem with our Stihl leaf blower execpt when insects blocked the exhaust ports. That machine will set for a couple of months between uses. Sometimes a reasonable shop fee is cheap. kt
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Stihl ms170 chainsaw will not start
dayleh, based upon my own experience, if you have let your saw sit a day or so since last trying it, put in a new spark plug and then use the normal process to start it. Don't vary anything from the way it has always worked such as number of pulls with choke on or such. Has worked for me a few times. Sometimes having a problem we will change the way we have always started a engine and miss something as simple as switching it on or priming it. Last fall one of my son in laws borrowed my saw, after a couple of hours he came back with it and it will not start. Have pulled it and pulled it and will not even fire. I had used it just like you a few days ealier and no problem and I failed to start it also. Changed plug with no effect. Let it sit for a few hours and amazing it started and ran fine. I really believe you can get such a build up of fumes and oil in there some 2 cycle engines just need to air it out. Back in the days of carbs on car engines have seen that also.
Years ago one of my brother in laws and I were cutting fire wood. We stopped for refueling and his saw would not start. He pulled and pulled it and even when ask is it on, yep! I switch and it was off. He took my saw and pulled and pulled and failed to start it to which I asked again, if is off, yep! Humous as it could be he had pulled for several minutes on two different saws with both being switched off even when asked on each saw. Hate to say I have done the same also.
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