 Hey everyone, Shaber1000 here. Today we've got this home light, a little weed eater, and I got this running before. I bought it at an estate sale for like 20 bucks or something, and it ran fine. Then I started having issues. It didn't want to start. Runs fine after you start it, but it doesn't want to start like after you run it and you shut it off. Have a hard time starting it, but once it starts it's fine, so I'm not sure. It's got to be something in the carburetor. It looks like it's gonna need a primer ball, but I've got one. I'm gonna get all that stuff ready for you, and then we're gonna, well I'm just gonna go and change that primer ball. We'll put some fuel in it, and we'll see what we can do with it. So stick around, let's work on this thing. Okay guys, so like I was saying, we got this running before, but real cheap in the estate sale. Let's put some gas in it. The primer ball, it's got some cracks on the inside of it. That could have something to do with it. Got a couple here. Got a brand new one there, and then I got this one. Two different sizes, a thickness on the rim right here, but we're gonna put a little fuel in here. We're gonna see if we can see what's going on with it. I did drain the fuel out of it when I when I parked it. This is not actually the fuel that's in here. This is the boat fuel. It took a little fuel out of the boat. See the primer ball was working. Might not have to, well I'm gonna go and replace it. I have one. It says seven times. Is that seven times? I don't know. Now this thing to start it, it says you prime it seven times, and then you set it down to start. That's your choke, and then you pull to start. And once it starts, you squeeze your trigger, and it takes it off of choke for you. So let's go ahead. Let's see if this thing start up, and that's what it would do. You pull long enough it will start and run okay, but okay let me get a socket. We're gonna pull this plug out of here. Check the plug. I see a little bit of leaking down here. Looks like maybe from the lines. It could be sucking air there. Lines are a little brittle. Well that one's pretty much off. I don't know if I got lines for this or not. That small. Let me check see what I got. Smells like it's flooding, but then we'll pull this plug out, and we'll see what we can do with that. Okay I'm sure I would have checked the plug before, but the plug doesn't look bad at all. It's a little damp. I want to check it for spark. I got to look down in here. Sorry you guys won't be able to see that, but yes it's got plenty of spark. So it looks like lightning. So we know that's not the issue. It's a fuel or air issue. Could be compression. Doesn't feel, of course, these little things there. They're not great on compression anyway. Up inside of here I may have to move you around here. There's a couple carburetor jets in there. Now I'm gonna try to adjust them. Take special little screwdriver. I'll show you the set I got, and I'll move you around here so maybe you can see this a little better. Okay so there's the adjusting screws. One's your high and one's your low, and if you can see it's got a little notch in each one of them. So in order to adjust them properly, get you back up here on the stand. Oops a little overexposed there. Exposure turned up a little bit because it's kind of shady right in here where I'm at. I got these. These were cheap. These were like 10 bucks, and there's all different kinds in here, and it shows you the the ones right on the handle that you need, and it looks like I need maybe this one. Yes, so we need this one here. All right, so what I'm gonna do. I'm just going to screw both these in all the way in, then I'm gonna back them out each one and a half turns. You can go one and a half to two turns. We'll get anything around it. Now when you screw these in, don't tighten them like you're tightening a screw. Just go till they stop. Now we'll start with this one. Doesn't matter which one. One's high and one's low. So we're gonna take this. There's a half a turn. There's one turn. There's a little over a turn and a half, and I'm gonna set them both that way. Half a turn, one turn, and just a little over a turn and a half. Now let's see if it'll do anything for us here. See that primer bulb. Shoot, I don't know if that picked it up. That primer bulb just broke. So it could have been sucking air. So now let me move you back over here. Well, I can keep you here. I can keep you here I guess. I just don't want to get in your way. So what I'm gonna do is we're gonna go and change this primer bulb. Let me grab a Phillips screwdriver. We'll take two screws out of here. Just right on top here. But yeah, see that? So it could be sucking air. That'll cause that. And I am getting some fuel around these lines. So it could be sucking air there. I don't know. Hang on a second guys. Let me grab a screwdriver. Okay, I said there's just these two Phillips screws up on top, or some people call them cross, or forget my name, it's called crossheads or something like that. There's there. I do see a little bit of water in it and I don't know how it got water in it. It's been in the shed the whole time. Probably just condensation. And the tank I did have drained so. Alright, let's see. I think the other one's a good fit too, but I'm just checking these these ridges here. But I think I'm gonna use this one. There's this thing I don't know if you can tell on here or not. It's real flat here and then up here it looks kind of rounded. That goes on top. So yeah, this is it. This one, well first I'll see if it'll fit down in this groove here and it does perfect. Alright. What I'm gonna do is we're gonna put this on here. Yeah, see these lines are, they're getting there. There's also a down inside of here. Trying to show you without. I'm not sure if I got one of these or not. So there's a little, these little tabs are actually valves that cover up certain passage ways up here. Now make the fuel go in different directions or wherever the wherever it's got to go in and out. So that could be an issue. That diaphragm's what it's called. Seem to be pretty pliable. That's one of them things you know is a pliable enough. Maybe it's just stiff enough to where it doesn't want to work. Because I don't remember if I put, I can't remember what was wrong with this. I'd have to go back and look at the video. Okay, it's squirting fuel out. Yeah, these lines are, could be sucking air. It sucks it in, puts it around through the carburetor and then back into the tanks what it does. Okay, now bring it up here and let's try to try to give this a start again. It's shooting a little bit of fuel down that carburetor. I'm gonna have to tear this carburetor apart apparently. Because the run-in long as it got fuel down into the carburetor and then stalling out. Okay, we're gonna have to take this carburetor off. So I gotta get me a Torrex screwdriver. Yeah, these are pretty brittle. I don't know if I got any hoses that size or not. So let's go ahead and let me get a Torrex. Let's take this carburetor off of here and we'll tear into it. We got something to put down here so we can work on this carburetor. See if we can get this thing running. Okay, so it is the T20 flavor. Torrex bit. You know, the star, a lot of people go on star bits but they're actually Torrex pretty long screw. I came for the life of me. Remember what we did on this thing last time I had it running. Got a gasket there also underneath here. There is, there's another diaphragm that will cause it not to run and I don't know if I've got any of these left for this style carburetor. But I'll check if it needs one. That could be the problem when they start sticking. It's just like shutting your fuel off, you know. It's, we're running out of fuel, whatever. Yeah, that's, it's kind of like a fuel pump. All right. And it gets, yeah, let's go ahead and replace this. I think I may have one. I'll show you when I get it out the difference. I don't know if you can hear that, that noise. They should be making that noise. You shouldn't hear that. So that could be a problem. So I'm going to get a razor blade. I want to take this off. I want to see if I got one for up here. I'm pretty sure I don't have one for up top. But this is one of the main ones here. This will cause it not to start at all. So I don't know. Let me see if I got this. This may be the end of this video. But let me see if I got one of these and we'll get my spray. We'll clean this up. I'm going to check. See if I got any of these lines. That size. I'm not sure. Stick around guys. We'll see. Sometimes, see the, how they seal on here is right down in here. There's actually no seal. It's just the line is such a tight fit. And when these things shrink, sometimes they'll shrink in there and actually close off the fuel. But we know that's not the problem because you know it's getting up into the primer bulb. So we know it's at least suck and fuel in. All right guys. Let me grab some things. Okay guys. So this is what I use. Use one of these razor blade, whatever to take these off. Just be careful you don't gouge that aluminum. A lot of guys will say no, don't even use that. If you're careful you'll be fine. Sometimes these will warp over heat and they'll suck air there. But this, usually they'll still run but they'll run kind of funny. Now I want to take this off gently because I want to show you the difference between this and the new one. I have one here. I think will work. It's a different style but shoot. Now there's a gasket here that I don't think I have that I've got to be real careful to take off here. I had some gaskets in here I must be using them. But anyway you can probably see this is here that. And it should be like this. Should flop around. Nice and easy like. All right. I don't think I changed this. Yeah see that's there's your needle and seat right there. That's what this does. Pushes on that. It pulsates crates like a pulse pump. Yeah I'm gonna have to clean that off. I want to see if I can save this gasket because I honestly don't think I have one. What I can do sometimes what I've done is just cut around there and just kind of use that as a another piece of gasket so thin it it normally it doesn't matter it'll still run just fine but sometimes they don't. There we go I can just rip it off of there. That's fine. Just remember which way this gasket goes because it'll either go on the bottom or on top that's usually on the bottom and then this goes on top but sometimes they are different but usually but just pay attention the way it came off. There we go. Awesome. Now we're gonna take I'm sure this is even gonna work right first. Yeah as long as them holes line up and that's the same size you're good to go don't worry about these you can actually cut them off if you want. If they're not in the way I usually leave them on. Okay so let's go ahead and take this off because I want to I'm gonna spray some carburetor cleaner around this thing I'm not going to soak it in anything. Numbness. Had a guy commented my numbness was from carburetor cleaner and stuff. No no it's not it's from it's from my stroke. Yeah I'm just gonna spray that out of there or spray that out there spray that out I'm not gonna mess with this one because I know darn sure I don't have one of these so I'm not even gonna mess with that one as there's no sense in it if I rip that we're pretty well screwed so let me go ahead I'm not gonna bore you with this I'm not gonna take that out because I don't think it's not sticking it's not flooding I'm not gonna take that out and take a chance of losing it if I don't you know if I don't have to so yeah that's what I'm gonna do I'm just going to clean this up real good with some spray just some spray shoot some spray in there dry it off with compressed air oh and I gotta check to see if I got lines I don't think I have any that small we'll see I might but I doubt it so I can can take I can't take these out now sometimes these will be two different lengths and be mindful of which one's which sometimes there's a little spring in there you got to be careful about this one doesn't seem to have any springs in it just weird looks like the tip on this one here dug on anyway the tip on this one is a little bit smaller than the tip on that one other than that they're the same but I don't want to mix them up because then it won't run right you'll never get adjusted right and you go what's going on there's the choke throttle yeah all right let me spray this down so you see about them lines if I don't have any we can at least get it running then I can order some lines okay guys so if you blow this out be careful that you're not gonna blow this off or blow on that and also be careful you don't blow that out that's one way check valve it'll let fuel in one way but not the other way like I can't blow out through it but I can suck in through it so I don't I don't have any of these lines unfortunately and I don't like to run bigger lines on them so go ahead and put this back on some of these they do go a certain way this one will go pretty much anyway you put it on there because it's just a square but some of them you know have like a diagonal on them like I said I don't need to cut these ends off because they're not hurting anything so get all our screws started first so that we know that way we know we've got everything lined up the way it's supposed to be before we tighten them down and here we go I think we've got them good now we're going to run them up in tighten them they don't have to be super nine a whopping tight just snug them up because these are metal screws going into aluminum and after why they don't like to come out so you don't have to really get super tight on them because eventually you're probably going to have to take this part again which I'm probably going to have to and I still can't remember what we had to do on this thing and this thing there will be an H see there's an H and L that's your lone high side so like I said some of these will have springs in them so be careful if they do that you don't lose them springs because what what that does it's not real super important but it's kind of important it just keeps these things from vibrating loose or vibrating tight yes they they can vibrate closed it a little bit and your equipment will start running funny on you and you're like man I got to keep adjusting it and that could be why I don't think anyone's been in there before me and I I can't see me taking them screws out what I should do sometime I should just go ahead and strip it clear down and throw this in the ultrasonic cleaner but I don't think my ultrasonic cleaner has heat but it would still help but let's just see how it runs like this first I order lines I might order a rebuild kit for which really consists of those two yeah this is Pac-Man style one little over one and a half one and a half to two turns will get anything running one cars motorcycles it doesn't matter one and a half to two turns was well anything was that'll that's a good starting point anything will start on that let's get this back down in here a lot of guys will differ a lot of guys will say two turns but one and a half to two turns I've seen guys start at two and a half turns then you watch them they're just meant to screw it in a good half a turn to three quarters of a turn which would be about your one and a half to two turns to start with right now let's get this put back on here won't go ahead and clean this off I'll get this bolted on then we'll try to start it it's just you know just the screws going through there you put your lines on you're good to go so let me get this all cleaned off it's looking nasty okay let's pump our primer bulb seven times one two three four five six seven and push this off and make sure I got this right okay that's all the way down then when you give it choke it takes it or give it fuel it takes it off choke so it's back you out here let's see if this thing will start and run on that switch just a momentary switch for the ignition on and off you hold it down to shut it off and let go and it goes back to on same thing all let's give it a little help here something right it's gonna have a passage or something clogged up in that carburetor to have these fuel lines on right yeah because they're only a certain length but let's try them for some reason it is not getting fuel could have them backwards I don't think so because see now the boats the farmers not filling up the fuel so that's not right gotta be like this that's weird the farmers not staying filled up with fuel now I don't know let me check it out see what's going on with this thing okay so I pulled this off off of there can you see that in there see all that gook and gunk and I could have something to do with it and right here it could be blocking off passages let me get this cleaned off okay let's see if it'll fill up now not really filling up there goes now can do what it's supposed to be doing all right let's try to hit it again if this don't work this time I'm probably just gonna have to get a rebuild kit I might get a carburetor because I mean these things are you know 12 or 15 bucks so but let's see what happens okay guys so let's go ahead and see if it'll start now all right so what I'm gonna have to do now it's pretty boring I gotta keep this running long enough to get it warmed up the operating temperature so I can adjust these these screws the high and low jet or the high and low jets then we'll see how it starts after that but right now that's what I'm gonna do and I want to bore you with that because that's all I'm gonna do and then I'll kick it back on once I get it dialed in and tuned in good okay guys so I took the carburetor back off a couple times and I think good I think I got it found some more a little bit of dirt and stuff in there so let's try it still might need a little bit of adjustment I can't show you guys working because somewhere over here it spit the string out but anyway so yeah let's let it cool down and see how it starts okay guys so been about 15-20 minutes so nice and cool stick my finger in the exhaust no problem let's try it again so that's the home light the mighty light 26 CS so and you guys getting pretty dark I don't know what time it is but we have something else we got to do I got you plugged in so I don't go through my batteries we got this thing Ryan the same guy we've worked on his other one he just got this one over the weekend he brought it down show it to me and we tried to fire it up it'll fire but it'll rip that it won't start it'll fire but it'll rip that that pull cord right out of your hand so I think the shear key might be bad so we're gonna check that out in the next video so anyway guys I want to say thanks for watching appreciate it Shabare the myth the man legend starting to get a little cloudy or dark or something we'll see you guys the next one and bye bye and y'all take care and be cool every time I start every time I turn the camera on we'll see you guys bye bye okay guys so like I said this home light we've done a video on before and forgot my chair we've done a video on before and and got my chair