well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today it's my leaf blower my hitachi leaf blower i've
had this baby now for just i guess this would be my fifth season of having this and for me
it's been a winner of a blower i'll tell you what i mean there's a lot of people on youtube
gonna show you leaf blowers and they're blowing leaves and they're blowing all kinds of stuff
guys to me this leaf blower does its job I'm strictly a still guy myself I like everything
I have is still and Makeda you know for two-stroke engines and this one here has been terrific no I
did have one problem with it the first month I owned it and it was right in here and then nut
in there on the fan had come loose so I noticed it right away it was like kind of rattling a bit
so I took the guard off took the nut off put some Loctite on put it back on and it's been fine ever
since so I came with some oil - and this here does five gallons of mix and 50 to one so you
can tell I've used it quite a bit and I figure it's about five gallons I've used through this
now what I'm doing here today is I've noticed lately it's been a little harder to start and I
have the original plug on that still I'm gonna pull the plug out and I'm predicting that it's
pretty carbon up in there so let's take a look and let's see how carbon dump this thing is well
let's get do it and let's get at it I'm figuring that it's uh it's carbon up I mean five gallons
of gas actually here's the plug right here and I'm thinking you know what it's not too bad and it's
got a CJ six champion plug in it guys this thing came with a seven-year warranty imagine that I
said year warranty I don't know if the warranty is any good tell you the truth I never used it
but it does come with a seven-year warranty and I can't see much right in there right now let's get
the inspection school boat and let's take a look inside okay I got the inspection scope out we're
gonna take a look inside I'll get your reposition so you could actually see the viewing screen here
and let's take a look inside okay so let's take a look here and see if I'll try and zoom you in as
best as I can there but and I'm just moving it around inside the cylinder and I don't know if
you guys can see that or not but if you're seeing what I'm seeing I'm trying to move it around here
inside the cylinder and yeah guys I'm seeing a lot of carbon buildup there so let's get to it
and let's start D car burning it and I'm gonna show you how I do it and let me know if you guys
do this too so that's what I'm gonna do I'm just going to take a look at the flashlight here and
just bring the piston up about maybe a quarter of an inch from top dead center and this is what
I do all I use is carbon choke cleaner guys I'm filling that in and I'll take you off the tripod
here and show you now I don't know if you can actually see that or not in there but can you
see that working yeah I think you can and I'll just leave that there until it stops bubbling
around and then we'll take a look okay so all I've done so far is I just got the wire wheel
and I wire wield the the plug a bit there cuz it was a little on the grungy side and I'm gonna show
you what I do with every one of my engines that I have on the spark plug boot so you can get it off
easy cause I just have some dielectric grease and all I do really is just put it inside here
just move it around a bit okay you don't need a lot of dielectric grease but that does make
a huge difference in pulling the boot off so all I've done that's when I first got the machine is
actually do that and I'm pretty amazing that's the exact same plug with five gallons of fuel
put through it let's take a look down the spark plug hole here you'll probably see better you
know actually with the camera than you can with the the borescope so let's take a look try to get
you in there's best I can but you can see that it has done a lot of difference of cleaning it
up and I think just doing that helps tremendously on the starting capability of your engine okay by
cleaning out your Songer does that mean that your I'm just gonna run a lot better all the
time well no a lot of times if you're having a hard time starting it's a lot more reasons than
that it's just that for me I thought I'd take a look at the easiest problem first and a lot
of times especially on an engine like this where the manufacturer gives you the specs on the oil
rating of twenty to one or fifty to one so I've been running in at 50 to one and it's carpet up
a little bit like you know it's not too bad tell you the truth but imagine if I ran that at twenty
to one I'm thinking be a lot worse now I do this periodically on all my two strokes and the first
time I notice that it's hard to start well that's the first thing I look at now I did take a look
at the exhaust on this and it is the screen is perfectly clean and you know what let's put it
all back together and let's see how it starts okay I got her all put together let's see how
she starts put the choke down give it a couple bowls and if she starts up she's going outside
okay you could hear it running out there I don't know whether the carbon cleaning actually did not
tighten the TRO or cleaning the pod either one of them it started a lot better than before I like
to clean the carbon out every once in a while I'm not too sure if you even supposed to tell
you the truth I am NOT a professional small engine mechanic but this is something I've been doing for
years and years and years and it's worked for me so thanks for joining me here today yeah I've seen
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