Hi MW,
unfortunately the spare length of line was pretty much the exact length required for the two pieces going into the tank, the one for the fuel draw had about a cm to spare. I did cut both to a point shape but the grommet fell into the tank as I tried pushing it through with pliers.
Making the best of the situation, I tried pushing the lines through the grommet while it was out but they just wouldn't, so I thought up the idea of using a length of coathanger wire into the line and then gripping it with pliers and wrestling it through gradually. It was painstakingly slow but I got there on the end.
It was a pig pushing the grommet back on, having to resort to trying to hammer it back in with a length of brass rod. Part of the rubber tore off the edge, but this served to allow me to finally push it in.
I happened to have a spare intake filter end for the fuel line so replaced the mangy looking original one.
The machine fired up but still displayed the hesitant behavior when I went to rev it, so I turned out the auxiliary high speed adjusting screw ΒΌ out and that did the trick and now it runs well. The idle needed some fine adjustments as it went to stall at one time.
I trimmed my front patio and a bit of the rear with flying colours.
The manual change head says 3mm only but only had 2.5mm line and it worked well. Will I wear out the alloy using undersize line?
