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I recently got a McCulloch 39 that sat many years. I cleaned the fuel tank which had old fuel in it. Gave it a drink down and it fired up and idled a little. The next day(today) I gassed it up with 32:1 which I’m told will be fine with modern quality 2 stroke oil and it fired up on its own 5th pull and would idle then die, longest idle was 8 seconds, a few times. An hour later I go back out and it’s slowly fixing itself as it now idles just fine for as long as I want it to. The throttle trigger doesn’t have much wiggle tho and it does nothing. I don’t see anything broken or missing, but then again I don’t have much experience with this series of McCulloch saws yet. Any ideas? I applied some WD40 to the linkages but that did nothing.
