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Looks like the problem has been resolved. Turns out it was a carburetor problem of some sort. I almost gave up and was going to take the trimmer to Stihl and let them figure out what the problem is. Then I remembered that I had a small bottle of Mechanic in a Bottle sitting on my shelf and I...

DOM is June 2019. It starts right up on first pull but is kinda lazy to rev up. No I have not done any further checking on cylinder walls, rings etc. For that, I need to practically dismantle the engine and I am not at that point yet. I was hoping it was something easier like plugged up muffler...

My trimmer has no power and struggles even under a small load. Also it does not want to rev up even with WOT. After about a minute of basically sitting there and idling at WOT it picks up and runs faster but the minute you apply a load it drops down again. Now here is what I checked so far...