Hi, Group.
I have an echo power blower and it was working just fine most of Saturday. Near the end of the day it started running a little bumpy and I thought it was just the typical "running out of gas scenario". I put more gas in and it ran the same. I checked a couple of things like the spark plug and the air filter - both were OK. I went to check the fuel filter and it had come detached from the fuel line. I put it back on. It started running worse until it got to the stage where it would start, run a little (a few seconds) then stop again. I left it until Sunday to look at it again. I replaced the gas and got new 2-stroke oil, just to rule them out as factors. Same performance. Long story short, I can only get the thing to run with the choke half open. If I close it, the echo shuts off. That's OK as a short-term workaround but it's not a good solution. Does anyone have any suggestions of things to check? Could the fact that the fuel filter came off be the problem? I don't know how long it had been off for.
I used the spark plug from my other echo since it was the same type. The two plugs looked quite different - the one from the problem unit was fouled and I think that might be to do with the fuel mixture being too rich. I was very careful to make sure that I was using the proper 50:1 ratio fuel to oil. I'm using Echo Power Blend oil and 89 fuel.
Cheers, Max
PS - just a quick rant. I spent about 45mins in Home Depot looking for a replacement spark plug with no luck. I needed an NGK BPM8Y but they don't have any NGK plugs (other than a few for Honda models). Their Champion catalog is from 2003!!! and didn't have mine listed in the cross reference section. I called my wife at home and after a while online she found that I could use a Champion CJ6Y. Home Depot have the RCJ6Y, CJ6 and a RCJ6 but not the one I needed. They don't even carry spare parts for equipment they sell. I was sorely tempted to take the spark plug out of the floor models but I resisted.
To make matters worse, I was recorinding the Pats game at 1pm and some guy announces the score over the PA system. Thankfully it was still in the first quarter but I had to get the hell outta there before I popped someone.
In the end I just used the spark plug from my other echo.
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