Homelite Flooding

[Drive_1305]

I have a small Homelite, model 20 thats about 4 years old and still set from the factory. Everytime I crank it, it floods and I have to remove the plug, clean it, flip it upside down and pull the rope to clear it out. When I get it running it runs good, but if I shut it off and let it sit it will flood when I crank it again. It was still warm and I removed the prime line from the bulb to check things out- fuel squirted out the line. I assumed the tank had pressure so I opened the gas cap, tightened it again, I did this several times and fuel still squirted out the prime line. I couldn't figure out how it would build up pressure that quick because I wasn't cranking it over or shaking it around much at all. I think I have the bulb connected right because I dissconected the prime line from the carb an pumped it and fuel squirted out the right way. The line in the tank with the filter is connected to the carb and the line without is connected to the bulb so I think thats right. I don't think the gas cap has a vent, the cap is a side mount type.

I tried cranking it without even pushing the bulb it still flooded. Just seems like the tank is not venting right and building up pressure and causing it to flood. I don't think Ive stored it with fuel in it and it was doing this last year too. Im not sure when it started doing this because I don't use it much. Any ideas?

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Im not farmiliar with this particular saw, but part of what your saying sounds like the gas is getting heated slightly and expanding when you shut the saw off and is causing the problem.


Maby you could crack the filler cap open when your not using it?

 

[Drive_1305]

After reading some other post, some of you are saying that the primer doesn't squirt fuel into the carb but circulates it. The way I have it connected now it seems to be pulling fuel up from the tank through the short line without the filter and squirting out into the carb. Maybe I have the primer connected in reverse order. If I reversed it then maybe the primer would pull the fuel up thru the filtered line, circulate thru the carb, thru the primer bulb and then back down to the tank thru the unfiltered line. Does that sound correct? I took it apart last year and didn't pay much attention to how it was from the factory.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Through the filter, to the carb, back to the tank through the unfiltered.

 

[Drive_1305]

I switched the primer lines around and its been cranking good.

It had been sitting in my shed for about a week and I picked it up and carried it about 50 ft to my garage to work on it and gas it up. I don't think I shook it around much when I packed it, but when I took the gas cap off gas spewed out. How could pressure stay built up for a week or why would it build up pressure so fast? I've read some post where other saws build up pressure in the tank. Im thinking its just poor tank venting-just a poor design some saws have.

 

[Drive_1305]

Im seeing some saws on eBay similar to the model 20 I have. Some of the models are Ranger, Bandit and 23Av- they're about 2.0CI or 33cc, then there's a Timberman thats 45cc. I think these saws were made in the late 90's and 2000's. Does Homelite make these saws or some other company? Im sure you guys consider them junk but mine runs and cuts pretty good so far.
What about some of the plastic body Homelites from the early 90's 45cc to 50cc, are they any good? I don't use a saw much just want find something a little bigger and cheap to play with.

 

[oldsaw]

Im seeing some saws on eBay similar to the model 20 I have. Some of the models are Ranger, Bandit and 23Av- they're about 2.0CI or 33cc, then there's a Timberman thats 45cc. I think these saws were made in the late 90's and 2000's. Does Homelite make these saws or some other company? Im sure you guys consider them junk but mine runs and cuts pretty good so far.
What about some of the plastic body Homelites from the early 90's 45cc to 50cc, are they any good? I don't use a saw much just want find something a little bigger and cheap to play with.

"Homelite" has been gone for years as a production company. Now it is a recycled "brand" pasted on saws and other "platforms" that have many other names on them in other stores. Same has happened in the TV business. The Chinese have bought up a whole bunch of old time US brand names and putting them on flat panel TVs to catch the old farts and those with some brand name recall, but not really paying attention to the industry overall. Names like Westinghouse, for example.

Mark