I got a free john deere RCS400 trimmer this past weekend. It starts after some trying but then idles rough and bogs down when I go to give it some throttle and will eventually die. There is a lot of oil on/around the engine so I'm willing to bet the PO went heavy on the oil/gas ratio. Looks like this is a homelite trimmer.
I'm getting a new spark plug, carb rebuild kit, air filter, a good deep cleaning and re-string the head. This is less than $20 so hopefully it make it good as new. I already a 1 year old stihl FS56 RC-E so not sure what I'm gonna do with this bad boy yet.
I'm getting a new spark plug, carb rebuild kit, air filter, a good deep cleaning and re-string the head. This is less than $20 so hopefully it make it good as new. I already a 1 year old stihl FS56 RC-E so not sure what I'm gonna do with this bad boy yet.
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