[mike black]

I have a weedeater brand that will run when I pour gas into the carburetor and will sometimes run a little on choke. When I try to open it up it dies. I don't think it is getting enough gas. I took the carb apart and cleaned it and it helped.

[thebriggsdude]

i have a weedeater brand that will run when i pour gas into the carburetor and will sometimes run a little on choke. when i try to open it up it dies. i don't think it is getting enough gas. i took the carb apart and cleaned it and it helped.

I hope not straight gas? Never run straight gas... at least use oil/gas mix.

Get a carb kit for it, tear it apart (pics along the way help) and soak it in carb cleaner for a few hours, and blow it out good a few times through every hole with carb cleaner (with that straw on the can hooked up) and try it then... If it has one or two long screws that goes into it, those will be mixture screws, take them out as well, to reset them, one turn out from all the way in snug as a baseline, then finetune.

[TxGreaseMonkey]

2-cycle engines are very sensitive to fuel/oil mixture ratios. They often require adjustments in the mixture screw. Take the yellow cap off the mixture screw and use a small screwdriver to open it 1/8 to 1/4 turn more. After you get it to run, use your screwdriver to fine tune the adjustment for high-speed running.

[KENTUCKY NICK]

On the two cycle engine there is a screen that gets blocked by carbon and this screen must be cleaned. It will be somewhere around the cylinder under a plate

[thebriggsdude]

On the two cycle engine there is a screen that gets blocked by carbon and this screen must be cleaned. It will be somewhere around the cylinder under a plate

Yes, that would be the spark arrestor screen, on weedeaters, its usually in the muffler (cylinder in design) at the exhaust port.

[rstempr]

I had the same problem. The cylinder is getting too much air because you have loose bolts on the intake manifold. You need to take the cover off to get to the engine to tighten two star bolts holding the intake manifold to the cylinder block.