About 7 months ago I needed to do some work on a tree on my property so I purchased an Echo Timberwolf chainsaw from Home Depot.
The saw worked great and I did all I needed to do. Total run time for the saw was maybe an hour and fifteen minutes total. I cleaned it up and blew it all off with air and emptied the gas tank and started it up to run it out of gas. I then put it away in the case for it that I also purchased with the saw. At the time I also purchased a gallon of Red Armor fuel and a gallon of bar chain oil. So that's the only fuel that was used in it.
I went to use it yesterday, so I poured some more Red Armor fuel into it and some more bar chain oil and tried to start it. I followed the book.
1. push in the compression release
2. pull out the choke
3. flip the switch on
At that point you supposed to attempt to start it. The book says pull the starter rope until you get the first pop. Then push in the choke and the comp. release again and it should start on the first or second pull.
My problem is no matter how I tried to start it, I could not even get a single pop out of it. It's like the thing is just dead. I wore myself out trying to start it, even with some pauses like a half hour to let it just sit. Then I called my nephew and he wore himself out also with not even a pop out of it.
I pulled the plug and it looked new and was a little wet. The air filter is clean with not even a speck of dirt on it.
I went back to Home Depot and they would not even deal with it since I've had it longer than 90 days. This saw has maybe an hour and a half run time on it and looks like it just came out of the box. Not even a scratch on the body or the blade bar.
Anybody got any suggestions? I did buy a new spark plug while I was in town and will give that a try after lunch.
The saw worked great and I did all I needed to do. Total run time for the saw was maybe an hour and fifteen minutes total. I cleaned it up and blew it all off with air and emptied the gas tank and started it up to run it out of gas. I then put it away in the case for it that I also purchased with the saw. At the time I also purchased a gallon of Red Armor fuel and a gallon of bar chain oil. So that's the only fuel that was used in it.
I went to use it yesterday, so I poured some more Red Armor fuel into it and some more bar chain oil and tried to start it. I followed the book.
1. push in the compression release
2. pull out the choke
3. flip the switch on
At that point you supposed to attempt to start it. The book says pull the starter rope until you get the first pop. Then push in the choke and the comp. release again and it should start on the first or second pull.
My problem is no matter how I tried to start it, I could not even get a single pop out of it. It's like the thing is just dead. I wore myself out trying to start it, even with some pauses like a half hour to let it just sit. Then I called my nephew and he wore himself out also with not even a pop out of it.
I pulled the plug and it looked new and was a little wet. The air filter is clean with not even a speck of dirt on it.
I went back to Home Depot and they would not even deal with it since I've had it longer than 90 days. This saw has maybe an hour and a half run time on it and looks like it just came out of the box. Not even a scratch on the body or the blade bar.
Anybody got any suggestions? I did buy a new spark plug while I was in town and will give that a try after lunch.