Thanks for taking the time! Some helpful feedback. I've heard it said that whipper snipper engines are good to muck around with and learn on. However, I started my love of tinkering with a Victa 2 stroke and anything bigger or smaller is just well out of comfort zone now!!
That being said, I'm always keen to learn and try new things, such as this whipper snipper.
Now, I removed the carby. I didn't completely strip it down as you say Tyler as I don't know what the metering diaphragm is??
I discovered a split in one of the fuel lines and repaired that. I don't have any fuel line that size so I just cut it down for the moment.
I sprayed out the carby with carby cleaner and it is fairly clean shape anyway. Put it back together and.....it ran. Well sort of.
I had the choke in the closed position and it fired up. While it was still running I moved the lever to "run". It died. I tried again and same thing, fired up in the "cold start" position and then dies when at "run". Then I got it going again same way, and just slightly moved the choke to "run" so it was sitting about half way. And it continued to run. With the throttle down it goes but then when I let the throttle off it dies a slow death.
I figure this isn't how it is meant to work. To me the choke is closed or open. And I want to be able to idle.
So can anyone tell me what the problem is?? Where do I start to fix it? It is obviously a carby issue. So should I just buy a new carby from the eBay for simplicity sake?
