Recent content by TobyU

I'm just glad you got it fixed. I have certainly seen Stihl ignition coils that had a timing issue. In fact there was a TSB or something on this a number of years ago. They would run but they were hard to start and they certainly wouldn't run well with stuttering and stammering and what felt...

This isn't a guessing game game show. If you've already fixed it and know what the problem was then tell the whole story up front. Many of us don't have time or enjoy the carrot game. We come here to help people fix problems they can't figure out or two tell them what they're doing wrong or what...

I have a feeling we don't have all the information or if we would have been there as a fly in the wall watching we would have spotted something that we would have been concerned about or said you shouldn't do. Sure, sometimes weird things happen without any good reason but when you've worked on...

I haven't read every post in this thread but I can tell you that it is highly, highly, highly and I mean again highly unlikely for a valve to drop on one of these engines unless somebody has been monkeying around in the valve cover and with stuff they shouldn't be messing with. I saw in a...