[*M]ONSTER CANNON wrote: Hey everyone...been a couple days since I reported for duty. I've been concentrating on my dysfunctional weed trimmer. Stupid thing wouldn't go past idle. I'm no mechanic, but Sunday after becoming a YouTube expert in mechanics, I removed the carburetor, took it apart, and cleaned it. Took off and cleaned the gas tank and last night, bought a new fuel line and return and a spark plug. Bought a bottle of liquid mechanic as well. I put everything together last night and it started on the last pull...but died after I opened the choke. I was furious and scoured the internet for answers. So this morning, I found the main ryobi website and write them a love letter with language I don't normally use just to get a reply telling me to take it to a repair shop...the unit is only a little more than two years old. Anyway, I find alot on the internet about others adjusting carbs. Well cool...might be something as a last resort. Looked for the two adjustment screws and found only one...uggghhhh. Well I thought about it for a few minutes and realized the two screws that were shown is a high and low. Low is for the idle. Well heck, my unit has an idle adjuster which pushes against the throttle. Then I realized a special tool (pacman) is needed for the high adjuster. I called everywhere to get one to find out it is illegal to sell them to the regular Joe. I found a blue electrical connector in my tool box. I talked it on and with needle nose pliers, I was able to turn the screw...it worked! Screw the EPA and their emissions...
I got one of those damn pieces of junk! It sits in my shed like i am going to fix it someday! Or it may find itself in the truck taking a load of scrap metal to the salvage yard. Toss up right now, but i have nearly got a load of scrap ready.
Speaking of internet experts, i learned how to make a digital television antenna out of coathangers a 2x4 and some screws and wire.
No joke, it really worked! Discovered some new free digital channels i never knew of before.
Just imagine if the game had broken 2 years ago what i might have done!