I need a description of the carburetor rebuild on a homelite mighty lite 26e

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you have 1 of 3 things wrong
1 you have pluged jets
2 you have a pluged fuel filter
3 you have a stuck float
4 fuel line is crimped

1 2 3 4 thats all it can be
preasurise the fuel tank by blowing into it when almost empty
this will as times clear jets
if fuel line kinked un twist it
best bet buy a rebuild kit for the carb and enjoy some time with a screw driver

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Normall setting is 10 thou but if there is no play in the crank bearings you can set at 8 thou

Curtis Sewell

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• Posted on May 08, 2011

SOURCE: homelite mighty lite 26ss model

Hi tbronco44...
I have no diagram but try this solution to your problem.
Be sure to mark your parts as you take the carburetor apart...

Check your fuel filter if you have one, normally they are located in the fuel tank.
Also make sure you are using fresh fuel...and oil mix if your using a two cycle mower or weedeater with the oil to the right mixture and not too much oil as it can cause hard starting.
If the mower/weedeater is over a year old, then I recommend that you buy and install a new carburetor repair kit,because the diaphragm will get hard and that will cause it to be hard to crank.
Sounds like you will need to clean the carburetor or replace your carburetor internal rubber parts like the diaphgram and O rings.
Be sure to use compressed air to blow out all the fuel and air passages.
Be careful when blowing out the passages, because there are sometimes small rubber type seats in the bottom of some of the passages.
Sometimes you can get by with priming the carburetor or using starting fluid and letting it run a few times like that and it will flush the gunk out of the jets,but most of the time you will need to rebuild the carburetor.
Keep in mind that the float for the carburetor must be level when you go to reassemble the carburetor or follow the instrucitons you get with the carburetor kit.
When you clean your carburetor and remove the jet screws, you will first need to lightly seat the jet screws.
But before you lightly seat the jet screws count the number of turns it takes to seat the jet screws from their original position.
Be sure to mark the turns down on a piece of paper.
That way when you put the jets back in, you know to lightly seat them first and then turn them back out to their orginal position before you started.
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I'm sorry that I didn't see your question until now. I have not been on FixYa in a few weeks. I've been getting some of my hard to find parts from a guy (Randy Duncan) in Mowrystown, OH. He seems to have everything and he ships it out very promptly. I just bought a starter pulley from him for my obsolete Homelite saw. http://www.randysenginerepair.biz
Best of luck to you.
James