G'day Tyler,
A guy was looking at it before me and walked off - he reckoned it had a broken rod - made a clunk when pulling the cord. Slightly loose blade bolt. Valve check, carb clean and it was running fine within 2 hours after I bought it.
Gives one a real sense of achievement when that happens, doesn't it?
I had a similar one a couple of years back - a $10 tip shop Echo SRM200DB straight shaft brushcutter. Had it running in half an hour - all that was preventing it from running, was a muffler blocked solid by mud wasps! Luckily, the piston had closed the exhaust port, so the damn things hadn't got into the barrel.
