it's Pete from Cheap Homesteading and I'm in the bush today and I'm cutting a little
firewood but I ran across a little bit of a problem that I wanted to show you
guys there you go the chainsaw is smokin I haven't used this chainsaw since last
year in the winter when it was like minus 25 minus 30
so the first reason why you're Sol will overheat is there's sawdust stuck in the
fins the cooling fins of the engine so you make sure you blow that all out if
it still overheats you really have to adjust the carburetor because there
isn't enough fuel coming in for the amount of air that's coming into the
motor and that causes a lean condition and if you leave that long enough it
will overheat the engine and the Rings will stick in the piston and you won't
have any compression and you pretty well destroyed your motor so you're gonna
have to get it fixed so as soon as you start seeing that the engine seems to be
overheating you got to blow it out and then try to adjust the carburetor or at
least take it somewhere that can basically when you go into a season like
if the temperature gets real cold you should adjust your saw if it gets real
hot you should adjust the saw where I live there's a huge huge like variance
from way below zero to way above zero the next time I go to run the saw and
you have to adjust the saw to make sure that it's running properly and you don't
wreck it so I'm gonna show you how I do that
so on the side of your saw you'll normally see it doesn't matter what
brand they'll normally have a high and a low jet hole h&L and basically your high
jet gives it fuel when it's at high rpm that's when you are gonna blow yourself
up really so I all I do is adjust my high jet a bit you know the saw is
closed you don't need to adjust the whole thing you just need to get it a
little more fuel when it's wrapped up full I'm gonna start the saw get it up
to temperature I'm gonna turn the high jet counterclockwise out until it starts
to stumble and then I will turn it in until it starts to stumble and then I
will turn it right to the middle in between those two points
so if I turn out one turn and it stumbles and I turn it in two turns then
it starts to stumble I will turn it at one full turn and and that'll put it
right in the middle and it shouldn't overheat at that point so let's so I'm
going to have it running so you won't be able to hear me but hopefully you can
see what I'm doing
so remember out is richer in is leaner so you always want to go a little bit
more to the richer side because to lean you'll blow up the saw to rich and just
won't run properly so basically I put it to the center and I just keep a little
bit of a switch back to the richer side so there you go let's try it again
so there you go no more smoking so doing a little bit of preventative maintenance
and adjusting can save your saws from the scrap heap you start seeing your
chainsaw smoking that's smoking for a reason so seeing that and rectifying
that can be the difference from having a long long life for your chainsaw or the
chainsaw overheats and it goes in the garbage bin after the first year so it's
really really important that you keep your eye on your chainsaw see if it's
overheating and if it is you have to fix that you
can't just keep running it because very shortly your saw will overheat and it
won't be no more good to you and then you'll be going buying a new one to save
money by cutting firewood so hey you really got to do that so you guys have a
good one