Greetings, I am the new Newb, :licking:. 54 years old, living in Kerrville Texas (60 miles west of San Antonio). I have built hot rods, worked real estate maintenance, and my career has been in industrial oil field as a roughneck on a drilling rig. I have rebuilt automotive carburators but have never successfully been able to repair a two cycle carb. With my multitude of lawn care equipment (home use), I am always being handicapped by equipment failure due to occasional usage and storage like periods of idle equipment. Guilty as charged of not running the carbs dry and using stale gas ! Seems like when I do it correctly I still have troubles. Being that my area has a short inactive period I guess I think I can get away with it. Everything I have learned, I learned on my own. By not being scared, asking questions, trying, failing, and trying again. I am hoping for your help from your knowledge. I hope to repay it with my collective learnings and analytical mind. I was prompted to make my first post, having joined a week or so ago. I believe in using the search function to do for myself, and also to develop intelligent questions, to not waste your time. I wanted to know what was that electrical line at the bottom of my carburator bowl. Fuel solenoid I guess, from reading posts. Why it is there I am clueless. They never used to have one. My riding mower surges. I have concluded I need to rebuild the carb. I do not feel confident. I also have a Mc Collough 3214 chain saw, and another 3200 cc just like it with a 16" bar. It needs it's carb rebuilt too and a new bar. I need to source the bar and since I have dicked with the carb so often, I just want a new one to start my learnings fresh. Any help would be appreciated. When I get time, and money, to do it I will make a post in the correct section if this first post does not help me. Or when the grass gets too tall and the trees need trimming, :laughing:. I would like to thank the regulars. Just like every forum, they are the glue which holds it together. Giving their time to help their fellow man. We all should do that in any way we can.
