It seems to me you have a variable definition for "flooded". To me flooded means theres more gas available than can be handled by the spark plug. A wet spark plug produces considerably less spark than a dry one so theres no starting.
It seems you start by using "flooded" to mean "primed" but then change to flooded when you talk about holding full throttle to clear the extra fuel... My Husky has a primer bulb that I only use if the saw has been sitting a few weeks or more. If its been running recently I flip the choke and it'll start pretty easy. -Curt Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:35:05 -0500 From: Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] I fought the saw and the saw won Message-ID: <a062408d7ce2ee77cf6a2@[192.168.0.107]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Does it have the primer bulb and a choke? If so, yes you can flood it. My general practice for starting chaninsaws is to choke it, push the primer bulb if it has one; pull the rope until it starts and dies. Then you know it is flooded. Then put the choke off and pull the rope until it starts. On my stihl this is generally 2 pulls, one to flood it and one to start it. The poulans sometimes start this well, and sometimes don't. The poulans don't start at all then the plastic fuel pickup tubing has rotted off from the crappy stuff the sell as gasoline these days. The Stihl must have some other way of picking up the fuel from the tank. On a flooded gasoline engine mit carburetor, you open the throttle wide and crank. THat works for chainsaws too. Seems to me that maybe your saw was flooded. May be or maybe not.... Can't tell from here. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
