bigchungus12
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Hi all, new to the forum. I have a 10 year old Stihl fs56rc weedeater that recently will not get to a high enough rpm to move the trimmer head fast enough to cut. We just moved to a new house this fall and in the hustle of this i forgot and didn't winterize/drain gas SO i assumed it was the carb sitting with gas in it (which had happened once about five years back and was fixed by replacing carb) so this time around I replaced the carb (genuine stihl) and the spark plug and is the same issue! it will idle but when you give it gas it will not rev up enough and sounds like its bogging down and it dies easily. I replaced the air filter and the fuel screen inside tank is clean. NO IDEA, is this a sign that this has reached its life expectancy or something simple I'm missing? Don't know what else it could be, fuel flows fine to primer. thanks in advance