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All the Echo product owners out there: HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM?
All the Echo product owners out there: HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM?
I am truly disappointed in my Echo products. When I started my business I started out with Echo due simply to the fact that they were one of the two major commercial brands in the area. I am now slowly but surely switching to Stihl. I've had every problem you can think of with Echo and tired of only getting 6 months of "good" use out of 'em. Actually took one back the same day I purchased it because it ran like a 10 year old Homelite. It seems as though they make their products to be throw aways because once they start running rough there's no bringing em back from the dead. I can't make money if I spend the first five minutes of each lawn screwing around trying to get my equipment running.
Sounds like the oil pumpI have a 12" Bar; Echo CS301, which at one time when I got it years back, it was there lightest and am sure smallest.
But now I,m told it is superseded by an even lighter one at about 6 Lbs and 6 Ounces? They claim it to be the lightest out there?
My little Echo has been really good over the years.
I really like it a lot. I try to maintain it properly.
Only trouble I have had was in the last year or so, with lubrication of the bar and chain.
At first I thought the oil pump might need replacement, but was told the pumps almost never wear out.
Now I am trying to see if it might be in the rubber oil line. Oil appears to be dripping out below the bar, so maybe there is sop page somewhere. I tried to flush the oil tank. I believe on the end of the oil tube/line, there is some kind of tiny sponge filter?
Has anyone out there any ideas of what I should try?
Thanks
jamesemu
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