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The kit for my Walbro HDA was delivered by the FedEx guy this morning, and before any other newbies decided to install a kit I thought I'd relate my experience.
The old carb had been torn down and cleaned, and I had it sitting on my computer desk. I open the kit package and carefully pour out all the new parts. I notice the metering spring has not been included in the kit, but since there was nothing wrong with the old spring I sit down and begin the assembly process.
The first thing I do is seat the metering spring back into the carb.
As I take my finger away, the spring sticks to my finger and goes flying, somewhere. OK, nobody move, it's small but it can't have gone far. I carefully look all across the desk without moving anything. No spring. Next I pick up the tools one by one, but no spring. Next, move the laptop. No spring. OK, it must have rolled onto the floor. Thank goodness we don't have carpet in this room. With light in hand, on hands and knees, I look everywhere within 10 feet of the desk. Next I move the desk and look behind it. No spring. OK, put a clean bag in the vacuum and see if it can be found that way. Wife comes in while I'm running it, says I have a new job around the house. Take the bag over to the workbench and carefully cut it open. Lots of small dead spiders, a #5 lead shot (it's been 20 years since I've reloaded shotshells), a rubber band, some dirt, but NO SPRING.
Get the light and look around the desk one more time. No spring.
Lose total control, throw carb and all the new parts into FedEx box. Get a bigger box, throw in the carb box and the one that is keeping all the other parts I've taken off the saw. Get the saw, forget I'm soaking the crankcase in premix (another thread), and spill gas all over myself. Throw saw in the box with the carb and other parts. Get up on the step stool, put the box on top shelf to be thrown out by next of kin someday. Twist my ankle stepping down from stool. Go back inside to shower and then sit in the corner of a dark room.
Start thinking. OK, if the old spring was that hard to find, perhaps there was a new spring in the package that contained the carb kit after all. Go back out to the garage, get on the stool, get box of saw parts down, look in carb kit package, find a shiny new spring down in the corner of the plastic.
Back to computer desk, lay out kit parts, start to install them, but have a question regarding the way the metering lever goes. Try to get on the computer and get to my pictures, but the spacebar won't work. Found the old metering spring jammed under the spacebar.
And to think before I found this site I would have just thrown the old junker saw away.
The old carb had been torn down and cleaned, and I had it sitting on my computer desk. I open the kit package and carefully pour out all the new parts. I notice the metering spring has not been included in the kit, but since there was nothing wrong with the old spring I sit down and begin the assembly process.
The first thing I do is seat the metering spring back into the carb.
As I take my finger away, the spring sticks to my finger and goes flying, somewhere. OK, nobody move, it's small but it can't have gone far. I carefully look all across the desk without moving anything. No spring. Next I pick up the tools one by one, but no spring. Next, move the laptop. No spring. OK, it must have rolled onto the floor. Thank goodness we don't have carpet in this room. With light in hand, on hands and knees, I look everywhere within 10 feet of the desk. Next I move the desk and look behind it. No spring. OK, put a clean bag in the vacuum and see if it can be found that way. Wife comes in while I'm running it, says I have a new job around the house. Take the bag over to the workbench and carefully cut it open. Lots of small dead spiders, a #5 lead shot (it's been 20 years since I've reloaded shotshells), a rubber band, some dirt, but NO SPRING.
Get the light and look around the desk one more time. No spring.
Lose total control, throw carb and all the new parts into FedEx box. Get a bigger box, throw in the carb box and the one that is keeping all the other parts I've taken off the saw. Get the saw, forget I'm soaking the crankcase in premix (another thread), and spill gas all over myself. Throw saw in the box with the carb and other parts. Get up on the step stool, put the box on top shelf to be thrown out by next of kin someday. Twist my ankle stepping down from stool. Go back inside to shower and then sit in the corner of a dark room.
Start thinking. OK, if the old spring was that hard to find, perhaps there was a new spring in the package that contained the carb kit after all. Go back out to the garage, get on the stool, get box of saw parts down, look in carb kit package, find a shiny new spring down in the corner of the plastic.
Back to computer desk, lay out kit parts, start to install them, but have a question regarding the way the metering lever goes. Try to get on the computer and get to my pictures, but the spacebar won't work. Found the old metering spring jammed under the spacebar.
And to think before I found this site I would have just thrown the old junker saw away.
