String Trimmer?

Ethanol will make the rubber seat in the carb's jet soften and then the needle gets stuck. Sometimes flushing it will break it free but usually not. It's practically glued in there then and a carb jet rebuild is in order, simple.

I run non ethanol in my small engines and will occasionally throw some seafoam in the tank. Often just a bottle into the 5 galloner when I fill that up in the spring.

Shit starts like a charm all the time.
Stuck needles make me cuss really loudly. The whole neighborhood is bugeyed.

Reading the instructions from stihl is key to proper starting. Their tools are not always designed intuitively. But they run just fine once ya get it figured out.
I have a new trimmer FS46? I got in trade from a client who couldn't get it started. It has a funky sequence to fire. Works great.

$35 a gallon for that stihl gas. what fool would do that?

Well it sounds like it's a crap shoot.

I will say I usually go for a 4 stroke because I hate mixing.

What about Husqvarna?

I mentioned above I like my husky brush cutter. The shroud is definitely more fragile than the Stihl FWIW.

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Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain

I'll drain all my 2 strokes in spring and fall (running the old gas through my truck).

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You run mix gas through your truck?

RE Stihl.

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Their tools are not always designed intuitively. But they run just fine once ya get it figured out.
I have a new trimmer FS46? I got in trade from a client who couldn't get it started. It has a funky sequence to fire. Works great.

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Give the primer bulb a couple of pumps to make sure its filled
Pump the primer bulb 7 times. Not 6 and not 8, the number shall be 7, 9 is right out!
Give the kill switch a push to make sure it isn't on, its a rocker switch, push it and it will pop right back but it is now in the run position.
Give it full choke.
Pull the starter, it should fire on the 3rd pull. let it try and run and smooth out. It will probably run roughly for about 15 seconds and then die.
Give the primer a 2 pumps.
Take off the choke.
Put the throttle to full and give it a yank, it will run and warm up further from there.

Or not.

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Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained

Reading the instructions from stihl is key to proper starting. Their tools are not always designed intuitively. But they run just fine once ya get it figured out.
I have a new trimmer FS46? I got in trade from a client who couldn't get it started. It has a funky sequence to fire. Works great.

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yeah this^^ unfortunately I didn't get the instruction book cuz used so maybe not as connected but they are on-line, I had minor issues this spring, remembered the kill switch/ forgot the choke but that was me not the Sthil

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Originally Posted by t-the-east

You run mix gas through your truck?

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me too, thro it in the tank and follow up with !00$ of gas,

any enviro/ pollution consultant will tell you

" Dilution is the solution "

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Originally Posted by t-the-east

You run mix gas through your truck?

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Yeah, 1 gallon of old mix in 38 gallons of fresh fuel ain't no thing.

Sorry a few days late here. Haven't been on the site in months.

Consider a Stihl Kombi. No real disadvantage versus dedicated trimmer but with the flexibility to add other attachments that save a couple hundred bucks a piece over dedicated implements.

I have only ever mixed my own 50:1 with ethanol free gas and have never had an issue.

On size, I'm sure the 91 is fine, but the 131 will never leave you feeling like you wish you had a bit more power. A light tap of the trigger cuts grass nicely along fence lines without beating up the string too bad (or the fence).



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If you are trapped in an ethanol state get the vp fuel.
I get a five gallon of pre mix. Whatever is left goes in the four stroke snowblower in winter.

https://vpracingfuels.com/