it's pete from cheap homesteading and today we're in the garage and i
am going to get my friends still ms 180c up and running i'll give you a little bit
of backstory i already took the carburetor off this thing and i cleaned it out with carb cleaner
and i could not get it to run properly the one thing about these chainsaws is they have a one uh
adjustment screw and they're very hard to clean because the high and low jets and everything are
kind of on that you can adjust them and when you go to clean them there's a bunch of little plugs
that you really just can't get behind properly so uh i'm thinking that's what the problem was
so i went on amazon and i bought one of the uh carburetors for it uh these chinese
carburetors i've had great success with so i'm pretty confident that it's going to work good
so we're going to install it and see if we can get it up and running first thing
we're going to take the air filter you got to put your choke lever down lift that out
pull the air filter out let's remove these two
nuts that hold the breather box on they're eight mil
okay if you lift that out i just drop the nut there you go so we're down to
the carburetor already pop the choke lever out of this notch and slide it
and then you look there's a wire in here that goes to the linkage and put that over there and this is
out of the way so with one finger you're gonna pull down on the linkage on the carburetor and
then you're gonna get this rod and pull back until it unhooks and then the whole carburetor comes off
and then you push on your fuel line so you push on your fuel line and then
pop that off and there you go the carburetor is off okay so we got the new carburetor here
there's an o-ring on there everything is ready to go we are going to install it so
an important thing is make sure this rubber gasket which is actually part of your boot
um doesn't have marks on it or something that could uh interfere with sealing the
new carburetor properly just make sure it's all clean and has a good sealing surface
we're gonna put the uh fuel line on
we're gonna pop that on
gonna use the pliers make sure you don't damage the line when you put
it on because that'll cause its own problems if you poke a hole in it
okay so now we're gonna slide this in here so now we do the opposite
we do the opposite so we pull the linkage down and slide it on and when it's hooked
it's all good okay so this is one of the fastest carburetors i've ever seen to just
take off and install it's absolutely great so now you get this piece of linkage and now
you shove it back in the end of your choke lever
which uh sometimes can be easier said than done there you go it's in the end we're gonna shove
the choke lever into the hole in here we're gonna hold up on this metal clip right there
and then we are going to shove the linkage down so this is how the choke lever goes in uh the
choke lever pops into the hole in the housing here it comes down there's a little tab here
and there's a little plastic lobe so the levers plastic lobe has to go underneath that and then
it pops into the tab there you go okay so now it is in there we clean off the air filter
pop that on
get the 8 mil socket
tighten them up until they just snug like just barely put the other nut on
so now that they're just snug you got to tighten them evenly so tighten tighten tighten
it's really important when you tighten down carburetors and that that you tighten them evenly
there we go the carburetor is installed you get the nice new air filter pop that in place
i think what i'm going to do is we are just going to throw
the cover back in and we're going to tighten this up and we're going to see if this thing starts
oh
so there you go she runs like a dream right out of the box
not adjusted not anything it runs really really well um that adjustment screws mainly your idle
um so you can turn that adjustment screw down and it'll actually slow down so your
chain stops turning but right out of the box this thing is running awesome so you know what
that's about enough for today uh we installed one of those cheap carburetors on a steel ms
180c and she fires up and runs brilliantly so that's about enough for today you guys have good